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The Fifth Hour: Niko from Vancouver Mail Bag! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mahlor and a special surprise appearance by who. If you've
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  Speaker 1: read the description of this podcast, you already know, but
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  Speaker 1: if not, you're in for a treat. On this the
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  Speaker 1: Sunday edition, the seventeenth day of the month of May,
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  Speaker 1: and we will get to the mail bag in the all.
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  Speaker 1: But we are joined this week in our revolving rotation
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  Speaker 1: of celebrities our special friend of the show, and if
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  Speaker 1: you have been listening over the last few years, you
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  Speaker 1: know who this guy is. He was part of one
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  Speaker 1: of the big events that we had in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: From Vancouver, we welcome in Nico. Now you might remember
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  Speaker 1: from the we had a great trip to Canada and
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  Speaker 1: visited beautiful British Columbia and that was all possible by
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  Speaker 1: our friend Nico. Hello, Nico, how are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: My man number one? Yes, I am back. How was
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  Speaker 3: everyone today?
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's great, Nico, and Nico. You're part of what I
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  Speaker 1: call the silent majority of the show, Nico, because you're
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  Speaker 1: you listen to the podcast, right, You don't stay up
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  Speaker 1: all night and all that, but you listen to the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You've been loyal Meani into the show and you're part
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  Speaker 1: of the backbone of the show and we appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: And everything is good here and on your end, everything
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  Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, everything is great.
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  Speaker 3: You know we obviously the Malon Militia missed you last
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  Speaker 3: week with Brian No filling in, but he held it
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  Speaker 3: down doing a little bit of a strict tease with
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  Speaker 3: the NFL schedule a release which I thought was hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know. The schedule thing was. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that has gone next level in our lifetime, Nico, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know how your and how old I am.
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  Speaker 1: In our lifetime when we were younger, that was never
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  Speaker 1: nobody cared. But now it's like it's next level. So
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  Speaker 1: and you will be with us for this entire episode
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  Speaker 1: before we get to the Mailbag, though I did want
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  Speaker 1: to put the finishing touches on a jam packed weekend
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  Speaker 1: of the Mallard Travelogue, which, as I put it out
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  Speaker 1: on the Friday episode, I planned on doing all of
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  Speaker 1: this initially in my head when I was flying back
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  Speaker 1: to California from from the East Coast, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do all this. I'll put this in the
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  Speaker 1: Friday podcast, and then I'll have other things to talk
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  Speaker 1: about on Saturday and Sunday. And yet here we are
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  Speaker 1: on the Sunday podcast and I'm still telling stories Nico.
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  Speaker 1: I have. There's that much stuff that happened Nico while
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  Speaker 1: I was away, so I'll continue with that. And for
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  Speaker 1: those of you keeping score at home, the we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: this on the Saturday podcast, but the Wu Socks game
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  Speaker 1: was rained out the Triple A team of the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow that turned into a bonus episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Fifth Hour, which is this episode, which is the mail Bag,
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  Speaker 1: which is in my part of it, not Nico, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Nico's He's a lean, mean wrecking machine, but my part
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  Speaker 1: of it middle aged man abuses his digestive system while
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  Speaker 1: chasing some kind of bizarre minor league glory now, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, Nico, I am a glutton for punishment, and
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  Speaker 1: I ended up spending I don't get a limited amount
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  Speaker 1: of time off, and I spent part of my time
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  Speaker 1: racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts and out into the
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  Speaker 1: boondocks to go to a minor league baseball game. And
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  Speaker 1: I might need some kind of medical intervention or something
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  Speaker 1: medical it is the right word. But I was legitimately
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  Speaker 1: bummed out a last last Saturday, I got the game
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  Speaker 1: got washed out. I guess two saturdays ago now a
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  Speaker 1: game got washed out, and I had mentally prepared myself
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  Speaker 1: for the ceremonial first pitch, and I was like excited.
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  Speaker 1: I practiced a little bit and got out there, tossed
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  Speaker 1: the ball around with with my my brother, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, all right, this is exciting, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is when you do talk radio. This is an
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  Speaker 1: elite athletic opportunity to throw out the first pitch. And
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  Speaker 1: I spent a good amount of time preparing myself and
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  Speaker 1: I was replaying old clips and for me, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to know, Nico, this was like Game seven of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series or or the you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if your baseball guy. But there the the super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. You know what I'm saying, feel me.
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  Speaker 3: On that, yeah, one percent exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So so instead we got the rain. I was like
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  Speaker 1: a bummer, you know. And we went to this place
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  Speaker 1: called Bowlwins out in Worcester that night, and and while
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  Speaker 1: the Malard militia was carrying on like a traveling carnival,
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  Speaker 1: and with Mike the Leprechaun, who informed me and he
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  Speaker 1: was like he was, He's an Irish guy. He drinks
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  Speaker 1: a lot, you know, it's the cliche, and he he
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  Speaker 1: lives up to it. And so Mike was pounding some
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  Speaker 1: alcohol and he informed me, say, hey, the Wu Socks
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  Speaker 1: still want you to throw out the first pitch on Sunday. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that sounded wonderful in theory. It was horrifying in practice
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  Speaker 1: because at this point in time, I like to shut
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  Speaker 1: things down. I limit these social events. It's very bizarre
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  Speaker 1: because I love doing the malor meat and Grease. I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun hearing the story of people
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  Speaker 1: that are fans of the show and listening and finding
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  Speaker 1: things out about you that that are listeners. And then
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  Speaker 1: at some point my social battery it like it just
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  Speaker 1: shuts down. It gets repossessed by the bank and then
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And so I had done back to back
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  Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, and I was like exhausted. Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: not paving a road, I'm not building a building, but
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  Speaker 1: I was exhausted. I was spiritually depleted. And I'm you know,
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  Speaker 1: living off airport snacks which I don't eat much of,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't get a lot of sleep, and some
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird cupcakes that I thought looked good that
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  Speaker 1: I purchased at the on the North End, at the
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  Speaker 1: bakery there, and you know, making poor decisions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: those late night hours. So nonetheless, I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is an opportunity. I th' get made of these
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  Speaker 1: opportunities to throw out the first pitch. This is the
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  Speaker 1: fourth opportunity that I've had in my lifetime. Lancaster JetHawks,
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  Speaker 1: which was an a ball team that's now out of
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  Speaker 1: business in California. The Bakersfield Blaze, which is also out
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  Speaker 1: of business now, the Inland Empire sixty six ers, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if they're still around. I think
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  Speaker 1: they still are. That was the last one, and now
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  Speaker 1: I can add the the technically the Red Sox Triple
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  Speaker 1: A team they're the Worcester Red Sox, but everyone calls
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  Speaker 1: them the WU Socks. So that's like four different minor
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  Speaker 1: league teams. At least half of them have gone out
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  Speaker 1: of business, which is not good news for the WU Sox.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm basically the Crash Davis of ceremonial baseball appearances.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, ah, you know, we we got
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  Speaker 1: to do this. I I'd planned to travel down to
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  Speaker 1: visit my my brother on Sunday very early, so we improvised.
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  Speaker 1: I canceled. I had plane, not plane tickets, I trained tickets.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna take the take the Amtrak from Boston
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  Speaker 1: down to New York. And I was like, ah, we
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  Speaker 1: rented a car. I went to Logan, rented a car,
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  Speaker 1: stuffed all our luggage. And my wife loves to pack,
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  Speaker 1: and Nico, you've met my wife. She she believes in
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  Speaker 1: moving pretty much everything that we have. When we travel, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's tough. I mean, you you travel a lot, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you travel a little lighter than I travel.
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  Speaker 1: But we'd take the whole house when we go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild.
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  Speaker 3: You got to you gotta prepare for the unpredictable, right.
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  Speaker 1: No, but you're supposed to be able to go lean
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  Speaker 1: and mean, I thought, I look at all these people
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube and they all have like one backpack and
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  Speaker 1: they travel for a month. And I'm like, I got
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  Speaker 1: multiple suitcases, I got backpacks. I don't even know what
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  Speaker 1: I have anyway, So we had all this stuff and
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  Speaker 1: we packed up the rental car at at Logan drove
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  Speaker 1: out to Worcester, which is a decent drive from where
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  Speaker 1: we were, and in it it was kind of you
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  Speaker 1: know what it was. It was like we were we
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  Speaker 1: were like fugitives on the run. We drove back to
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  Speaker 1: Worcester less than twelve hours after leaving the event that
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  Speaker 1: we did, and it was like it felt less like
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  Speaker 1: transportation more like an endurance challenge sponsored by like rental
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  Speaker 1: cars and some shaky decision making. So we got to
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  Speaker 1: this minor league ballpark called Polar Park and waited for
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  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, who took a few pictures with me
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  Speaker 1: and some other random people, and then suddenly I was
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  Speaker 1: escorted backstage at this baseball theater, beautiful ballpark in central Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: Side entrance concrete tunnels, wandering through random corridors, the bowels
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  Speaker 1: of the stadium. There were mascots wandering around waving at me,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't know. I knew one of the mascots.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know the other three or four mascots. And
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  Speaker 1: there anyway, we're walking around like there's six or seven
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  Speaker 1: mascots here. How many mascots can one minor league baseball
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  Speaker 1: team have? And it was like a low budget horror
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  Speaker 1: film at that point, I'm like, wow, they keep popping
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  Speaker 1: up these mascots. And then came the moment. So I
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  Speaker 1: got out to the field. I was there for like
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  Speaker 1: maybe five minutes. I chatted up a couple of people.
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  Speaker 1: I was then told I had to go out to
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. So I was handed to baseball. I was
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  Speaker 1: summoned towards the mound like the aging gunslinger being called
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  Speaker 1: out for one final duel. Who knows this might be it?
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  Speaker 1: And I got out to that mount and I delivered
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  Speaker 1: what I will unofficially officially describe as high gas, a
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  Speaker 1: right handed Eraaldis Chapman experience. The radar gun may never
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  Speaker 1: recover from that pitch. And now certain critics, namely this
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  Speaker 1: guy Matt Kay, who was at the game, claimed he
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  Speaker 1: sent me an email. He claimed the pitch was terrible,
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  Speaker 1: which is completely false. That's a disinformation campaign by Matt Kay.
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  Speaker 1: That's deep state propagated. The pitch had movement, and it's
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  Speaker 1: the term. Think of it like a charcouterie board where
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  Speaker 1: I served up nothing but high cheese. And you know
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  Speaker 1: baseball slanging, right, you're aware, Nico. You know baseball slang.
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  Speaker 1: High cheese is a fastball thrown at the very top
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  Speaker 1: of the strike. So is it not right at the
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  Speaker 1: top high cheese.
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  Speaker 3: High cheese? You know what it is, Bill Ben. But
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  Speaker 3: New York Mets, they're looking at you right now. They're
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  Speaker 3: wanting to sign you to their roster. They need you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm available, and listen, I'll hang out. All I get.
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  Speaker 1: All I want is to hang out with mister Met
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  Speaker 1: when I'm not pitching, I can. I can go down
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  Speaker 1: and do some stick with mister Mett. So I threw
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  Speaker 1: this high cheese, Nico, upper part of the zone and
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  Speaker 1: right there, boom, speed, precision, very difficult to hit. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting I'm getting my balls busted by these guys. And
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  Speaker 1: I got to point out also, I considered that, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't promote this prior to the fact that this happened.
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  Speaker 1: I had mentioned my battery was at zero. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of sleep. I had some digestive instability
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  Speaker 1: that we don't need to get into on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But considering all of that, this was like my Willis
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  Speaker 1: Reid game. In fact, it was better than Willis Reed.
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  Speaker 1: This was my my Michael Jordan flu game. It was
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  Speaker 1: the Mallard gastro Intestinal Classic is what it was there
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  Speaker 1: in Worcester. And my favorite part was, though it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even the pitch, I got to meet a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other random listeners by completing total action. I was not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be at this game. We didn't really promote it.
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  Speaker 1: There was no organized event, just some random p ones
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  Speaker 1: materialized out of thin air. Baseball loving Woodland creatures. We
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  Speaker 1: had Jerik from Rhode Island who drives a truck. He's
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  Speaker 1: a big Yankee fan. They were playing the Yankees Triple
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  Speaker 1: A affiliate. Ryan from Rhode Island came by d Mack
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  Speaker 1: who has a basketball phenom son much like Nico. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about his son. He's got a son that's doing
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  Speaker 1: great in soccer. It's gonna be going to the next
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  Speaker 1: level in that sport. Brian from Worcester came by fellow
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  Speaker 1: member of the tribe who also was there at the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday event that we did, and so just real quick
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  Speaker 1: to I mean, I'm going long here, I apologize. Polar
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  Speaker 1: Park really is a gem. Got just to paint the
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  Speaker 1: picture for a blow listeners. It's Central mass so it's
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  Speaker 1: an old town. A lot of history there going back
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  Speaker 1: to the American Revolution for God's sakes, and rustic brick
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  Speaker 1: buildings beyond the outfield train tracks every hour I was
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  Speaker 1: told the train rolls past center field. You had that
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  Speaker 1: old industrial New England energy. Just beautiful, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: way that makes you want to buy a scorecard and
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  Speaker 1: complain about you know, some random you know, d H
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. And so the wusas I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: they were playing the Yankees Triple A team, the rail Riders.
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that was a thing from Scranton, PA.
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  Speaker 1: Scranton Wilkesbury, PA. And Anthony Volpi, who made one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite plays in World Series history when he was
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  Speaker 1: playing shortstop for the Yankees and booted a ball in
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  Speaker 1: Game five, fifth inning meltdown against the Dodgers a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years back. Volpi went zero for four and continues
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  Speaker 1: to be the most aggressively average to below average Yankee
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  Speaker 1: suspect of his generation. He actually got called right back
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  Speaker 1: up to the Yankees after this game, so I guess
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  Speaker 1: they must have been really impressed by that. Oh for
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  Speaker 1: four the Yankees that they called him back up. And
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  Speaker 1: then George Lombard Junior, the third base suspect, looked very human.
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  Speaker 1: He played in the game. The guy actually looked to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't stay for the whole game. The guy
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  Speaker 1: looked really good. Elmer Rodriguez, who showed some juice on
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  Speaker 1: the mound, so he looked good. And excuse me, we stayed.
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  Speaker 1: We stayed for about half the game and then finally
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  Speaker 1: headed towards headed towards New York. And yes, there's more
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  Speaker 1: stories coming and all that, but we got Nico here,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't spend all the time time about this
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  Speaker 1: first pitch thing. It was just high cheese. That's it
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  Speaker 1: the headline, High cheese in Wooster. And now we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Ohio al and get me in the mood here,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio Al for the little mailback. It's all right, all right, Nico,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get into this the mailbag. These are actual
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  Speaker 1: messages by actual listeners to the show. I was a
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  Speaker 1: little concerned because, as Nico pointed out, I was away
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  Speaker 1: last most of last week. I came in for the
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  Speaker 1: Friday show, but I was away most of the week,
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  Speaker 1: And they always when you're worried, like, well, people are
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  Speaker 1: still going to send emails in Yes, we were fine.
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  Speaker 1: So the first one on the mailbag again, this is
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  Speaker 1: me Ben and Nico from Vancouver, Big Podcast p one.
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  Speaker 1: Mike from Rhode Island says, Ben, do you feel victimized
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  Speaker 1: by Netflix? And then Nico he sent a story here
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  Speaker 1: that Netflix. I think we mentioned this. I thought we
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: mentioned this in a previous podcast, but maybe not. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: all these things run together. So Netflix has been sued
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  Speaker 1: by the state of Texas. The officials are claiming that
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  Speaker 1: the streaming service has been quote spying on viewers and
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  Speaker 1: making them addicted to Netflix. And so that's the question
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  Speaker 1: for Mike and Rhode Island is do I feel victimized? No,
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  Speaker 1: of course, somebo are you talking about. That's how every
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  Speaker 1: media company operates, That's how life operates, like It's that's
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  Speaker 1: just the way it is. Like if you're if you're
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  Speaker 1: running a company like Netflix, is it really spying. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it's spying you're trying to find Like
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  Speaker 1: when I go on I don't go on Netflix a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a loyal minion. I'll go on there like
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  Speaker 1: I travel. I downloaded some stuff before I flew, But
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  Speaker 1: I just assume when I go on there, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: picking shows that I want to watch because they have
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  Speaker 1: already kept track of what I've watched, and they know
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  Speaker 1: what I I'm most likely to like, Like, why would
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  Speaker 1: anybody be surprised? Am I crazy an eco to have
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  Speaker 1: this position?
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  Speaker 3: No, this is one hundred percent. We're being watched twenty
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  Speaker 3: four hours a day, seven days a week. So with
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  Speaker 3: if Netflix wants to monitor and put a suggestion out
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  Speaker 3: there that I should watch Full Swing or the NFL game,
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  Speaker 3: by all means, but we're being watched all the time exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's like in like what's the old line? Like, and
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  Speaker 1: I've used this before and I don't have it in
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  Speaker 1: front of you, but like, if you're not paying for
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  Speaker 1: the product, you are the product. And even if you're
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  Speaker 1: paying for it, like in the Internet age, it I
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  Speaker 1: only get really matters. I think you're still still the product.
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  Speaker 1: And it's to me. It's not any different than in
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like in football. You know, they look
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  Speaker 1: for tendencies in the NFL. Now they call them analytics,
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  Speaker 1: and the old days we used to call them tendencies.
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  Speaker 1: We say, Okay, if it's third down and seven and
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  Speaker 1: the balls at the near hash mark, more likely than
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  Speaker 1: not they're going to throw the ball and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to throw it to the far hash mark. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's certain tendencies. So yeah, I don't good luck. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how that's gonna help anybody other than some
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  Speaker 1: politicians in Texas. Scott from Florida writes, and he says, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: on your previous Sunday monologue about phone numbers, please tell
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  Speaker 1: me you got the Associated Press leak way back in
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  Speaker 1: twenty oh three in your early days there on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: I have kept this all these years and I never
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  Speaker 1: look at it, but your monologue brought me back. Check
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: out the names.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: You can could certainly make some calls and figure out
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: what happened to some of those numbers. That's from Scott
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: in Florida, Nico. Do you remember this story. I don't
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: know if this was widespread. This is way back. This
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: goes back twenty almost twenty five years ago. So this
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: was before the internet, like the internet was like America
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Online and stuff like that. It wasn't what it is today.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: And they still had these Associated Press wire and the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Associated Press. I would love to know how this happened.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Somebody clicked the wrong desk or the wrong button at
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the AP sports desk and accidentally emailed out the entire
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: rollodex of the Associated Press, which is like, I don't
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: know how to describe it other than every legendary figure
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: in sport had their number who was just accidentally sent
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: out all over the world. And at the time, a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: lot of these guys have passed on, but Hank Aaron,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Kareem Abdul Jabbar was part of his legendary figure Sparky Anderson,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the legendary manager from back in the day. I do
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: have the list in front of me. I have it somewhere, Scott,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you sent me a copy. I appreciate that Yogi Bearra's
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: number was. I was just it was a ridiculous nig
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: imagine all of a sudden having the number to every
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: single legendary figure or in sports, like you just randomly
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: like call him up, Hey, Terry Bradshaw, What's what's going on? Yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that's that's that's chats. Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was huge back in the day, right, that
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: was a huge news story with so many celebrities at
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: that time being yes, having their phone numbers leaked. And
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: that's very similar to having your email hated right now,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: right and all of a sudden, any emails get leaked,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: like John Gruden gets uh uh caught here or or implicated.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: But I can I I need to mention something to
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: your last question there in Texas, Hey, I got to
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: put a dig out there. Jerry Jones, he knows exactly
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: what it's like to uh look at the Analympics part
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: and he got caught with Jamie Fox during that live
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: stream and he mentioned something on that live stream. So yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: in Texas, they they they go in very very particular
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: with every minute detail, right Jerry.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Jones, Yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah, that story didn't
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: have legs. I thought that would have legs. That did not.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: That was like a couple of days story and I'm
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: glad that you got that up. That's Agoing Barry from
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Hilton Head, South Carolina, rights in on the Fifth Hour
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: mail Bag with me Ben and our special guest Nico,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: my guest friend of the show, Nico from Vancouver is
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: in Yo Yo, Ma, Benny and whomever else that's Nico.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Barry it says, what is your position on sending food
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: back to the kitchen. He also says he's still trying
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to get out of South Carolina. The housing market blows chunks. Yeah,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: so Barry, My position is, it would have to be
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: unedible for me to send it back, and anytime, I
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: cannot stand sending food back because I not that I've
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: worked in the kitchen, but I've worked with enough people
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: that have worked at restaurants to know that, depending on
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: what type of restaurant you're at, there is a very
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: good chance that if you send food back, the food
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that you're going to get back will have somehow been
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: compromised with contraband. And I don't want to eat contraband
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: or whatever kind of you know, cooties they put in there.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And so it is, it is the last thing I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: would want to do, and if I did do it,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I would have to sweet talk the waiter or something
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: like that. I can't stand it. And again that's my
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: position because I just have heard too many horror stories
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and seeing too many random things online that I'm like,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: oh boy, like what are we doing? What about you, Nigo?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: You go out to have a nice meal, Let's say,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like I don't like mushrooms, I'd say they cover my
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: food with or cover your food with mushrooms. You don't
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: like mushrooms, what do you do? You make the call, Nico.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you send food back to the to the
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: back of house, you're putting your life in your own hands.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: When that food comes back, good luck. And you're absolutely right,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: depending on the restaurant. Yeah, that's that's career suicide when
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you're going to take a bite of that burger or
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: something you don't know what's in there.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, you got one shot. And that's one of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the reasons I get annoyed when we go out to eat,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and I usually eat out, like maybe once a week
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and you go out to eat and I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: need full dedication from the waiter, Nico. And I know
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it's kind of cool if you're a waiter not to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: write down the order and I delete things, I add
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: things to my order. And since we, as we've talked about,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I don't send food back, so as an act of kindness,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I would like, I would enjoy if the people involved
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: would actually write down the order to make sure they
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: get it right, therefore eliminating or at least limiting the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: possibility of me sending the food back because they're going
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to get the order right. So that's yeah, that's my
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: my issue on that. So what else we have? Let's see?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Who do we have? EENI Meeni, Miney mo Lucky Tony
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: from the Bay Area says, I wanted to put this
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: on record. I never served in the military and I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: am not into that stolen valor blankety blank blank. My
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: dad is a Marine vett and once on the show
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I sang Cadence, but that was just so I could
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: say puss an ass on the radio and reference Soldier
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Field Bears. It says. Now the question, what about Benny
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: versus the Penny one game early Fridays. Yeah, Tony, it's you.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: We're sitting here in May. I'm not I'm not worried
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: about Benny versus the Penny. I did look at the schedule,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: as everyone else did. I was looking at the NFL
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: schedule like, Wow, that's gonna be very difficult if we
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: do get the TV show back, because you're gonna have
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: a Wednesday game. The NFL openers on a Wednesday. You're
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: gonna have a Thursday game. Rams. I think there's a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: a Friday game. I mean it might be a Friday
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: game and then a Saturday game or a Sunday game.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So but either way, that's that's that's a tough that's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: a tough schedule. But I'm glad the Lucky Tony I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: missed you. You didn't call on Friday, and I wasn't
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: in most of the week, so hopefully you'll give his
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: call at some point. There quite quite the character, Nico
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. I've not met Lucky Tony. He's he's a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: real gem, that guy.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard him, heard him when he calls in hilarious.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's real quick and he's got he's got
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: some daggers. Alf next up on the mailbag with me,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Ben and our friend Nico. Alf from Bowling's Bar and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Patio in Worcester, says Ben. First off, I'd like to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time out of your busy
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: schedule to come all the way across the country to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: meet up with some people with whom many have never
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: so much as called into the show, but have been
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: entertained by you over the years. You'll you'll never know
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: how much it means blah blah blah blah blah to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: have shared a handshake and some kind words personally. Alf says,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I had a whole big reveal plan with a who
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: m I game? When I saw you, it all went
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: out the window. When you gave me a Benny Bear hug.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: It made me feel like I was Bella and you
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: were angry Bill, he says. But seriously, I am one
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of those people that just listens, Alf says, I never
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: call in, and you met each and every one of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: us feel important and special. Thank you for introducing me
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to others. There says, I'm not the kind of person
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: that will approach others, but neither of my By the way, Alf,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you know I don't normally do that, and I don't necessarily,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Alf says, have the gift of gab for those I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: don't know fair enough. That, combined, Alf says with the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: loud atmosphere, made it hard for me to communicate with others.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: But it was great to meet fans like Brian from
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the West Springfield area that told me that he voted
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: for me over that Fink ferg dog my words. Also
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: great to meet Jerry, Andre, Dan to Vito or Nasto,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Last, but not least, finally, meeting Coop and Lorena,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: along with Missus Maller and Missus Coop are memories that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I will always sherish. Alf says, look forward to hopefully
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: meeting all of you again, maybe somewhere that the two
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of us could carry on a normal conversation and actually
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: hear most of it and could tell you some of
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the million things they wanted to say but forgot fair enough, Alf, Yes,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: these things are. It depends where you go. There's a summer, big, summer, small, summer,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: medium sized, and there's a lot of ambient noise. It
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: did not and I talked about this over the weekend, Nico.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: But this guy, Mike the Leprechaun. There was a band.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: It was an Irish pub in Wooster, and Mike got
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: on stage. He kicked the band off stage and started
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: doing a monologue. And there were a bunch of people
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: drinking beer and whatever, trying to enjoy themselves on a
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Saturday night. And they were not just our crowd. There
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: were other people there and Mike the Leprechaun gets up
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: there and starts he starts rifting, and it was very awkward.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: People are like, what is this guy doing? Was he was?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: It was pretty wild. It it was pretty wild. But
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it was great to meet Alf and his wife, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Alf's been a big part of the show for many,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: many years, and all the p ones that came out.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: It was it was a lot of fun and we
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: got a good crowd. It was. I was a little
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: concerned the weather was not good, as I've talked about
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: it over the weekend here, the rain and whatnot, But
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it turned out to be a really good situation in
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: terms of the crowd that did show up, and everyone
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: seemed to have a good time. Quang from Ho Chi Minh,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Vietnam Rights Since says Guaranteed human a conundrum is a
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: highly in tricked. It in tristit confusing or difficult problem
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: said the man with the microphone with a seemingly impossible solution.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Quang writes in it often refers to a riddle, puzzle
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: or complex ethical dilemma. He says, chick fils is random.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: He says chick fil a cells and eight ounce garbage
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: garbage garden, herb ranch sauce, squeezable bottle with creamy buttermilk
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: ranch sauce, et cetera. Is this a conundrum as it
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: has both a the devil's blood and be your obsessive
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: love of garlic. Well, it's not a conundrum at all, quaang,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: because once you toss the ranch in, I'm out. I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: love the garlic and the onion and then the herbs
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and all that. That's great. Buttermilk is a relative of
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the ranch dressing, so I object all of that. It
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: is not a conundrum. It is not a quagmire. It's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: none of those things. It's an easy pass for me.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: It's an easy pass for me there at Chick fil A,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: although I did see somewhere that they're gonna have I
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: think they already have Chick fil A vending machines. How
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: about that one? Are you gonna I was at the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: airport in Boston. I didn't mention. Over the weekend they
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: had the famous white Castle vending machine.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Nico, Oh, that white Castle vending machine. Nice.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had that in in Boston at Logan. I
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: have not seen the Chick fil A vending machine. It's
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: still a little difficult for me to think, but you're
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: gonna put money in and get a nice delicious sandwich
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: out of a vending machine like a Chick fil A sandwich.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: And are those vending machines gonna be open on Sunday?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: What do you think You think they'll be open on
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Sunday or no?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I bet you that vending machine for Chick fil
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: A is probably gonna be better than the vending machine
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: that you have at the Fox Sports office there for iHeartRadio.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, well, Nico, it'll be newer than forty
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: years so that's a classic, like thirty five or forty
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: year old vening machine that we have. We haven't worked,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't know the whole event machine thing.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: That's a There's a couple of things in my life.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, food trucks. It was always
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: terrible food, and now it's become designer food. Like now
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: food trucks are where the top culinary people go and
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: develop their craft, and food trucks, I assume it's like
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: that in Vancouver. I know it's like that in la
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: where we do the show from where like the really
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: top restauranteurs that make these amazing weird food dishes are
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: often in food trucks because it's cheaper. And when I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: was growing up, it was like those are the worst man.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to eat it a food truck. And
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's changed. But also vending machines. I feel like vending
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: machines have changed. Like it used to be just put
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a couple of back. In the old days, you put
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of quarters in, you get a bag of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: chips or a candy bar. And now they've got all
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: these exotic vending machines. You can get all kinds of wow.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So I don't trust it, though, Nico, I don't have
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: a vending machine.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Many machines have changed. But back in our day, Ben,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: what do you mean couple dollars, we'd be putting a
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: coat hanger in the back through that big slot, trying
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: to grab stuff from the back. Well, we'd have a
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: friend trying to shake it to get your stuff out
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: from the front.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was. It was a three man operation.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: You get one guy in the back, one on the side,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and then one in the front and you'd all be
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: shaking it and shake, rattle and roll. Absolutely, that's that's funny. Uh.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Fer Dog in Fullerton writes, and he says, Hello, Ben
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: and friend of the show, that's Nico uh Freguard says,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I've told you before, I don't listen to your show
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: when you're not there, but I'll have to. I'll have
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to let you know I listened each and every day
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you were gone this week. I was listening from eleven
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: pm Pacific to eleven oh one pm every night, like
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a true p one should. You're welcome and well, thank you,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: thank you for that solid one minute for dog. I'm
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: glad that you got to hear the open. He also says,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: why do you even try to small talk with Anthony
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: and Louisiana. You know he only sees you as an
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: obstacle in his path to flirt with Lorena. Either you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: should let him go straight to Lorena or make it
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a game to see how long you can keep the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: conversation going before he rudely interrupts you to say, Hey, Lorena,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I haven't been timing your calls with him yet, but
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you haven't lasted very long. What do you think. Well,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought this up for a dog, because
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: it has been my goal with Anthony to try to
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: see how long I can keep him from saying Hey, Lorena,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and the sound of his voice you can tell when
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: he's on the air how disappointed he is when I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: will not allow him to just ask Lorena a hello
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: question and then flirt with there. He gets genuinely annoyed.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And it was his dream the other night because you
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: not only had Lorena, Coop was out and so our
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: friend Brie was there, and so Anthony was like, oh
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: my god, I got the beautiful Brie. I've got the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: amazing Lorena. This was like a dream come true for him.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And then of course he had to put up with
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: my fat ass and then eventually he just he says
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: hellone and he just hangs up. It's very odd to me.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: It's very odd that that whole dynamic. I don't know
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: what else to say, but very odd. But anyway, Ryan
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: from Shrewsbury writes in in the Commonwealth. He says, hey,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Ben and guest, that would be Nico. It was a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: pleasure meeting you on Saturday Ben at Bowlands in Worcester.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I have not missed a pod episode over three years.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: A big fan of the best of version of the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Overnight Show. Anyway, he says, no question for me this week,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: just said he had a good time and all that.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Hope to do it again with his wife. Yeah, I
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: want to thank you, right, I was hoping we get
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit longer. Ryan left somewhat early,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: but he was there with his wife. They had gone
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to a wedding. I remember Ryan, you had said you
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: had a wedding. I think it was that that day
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: or the day before. So you guys were running around
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: and then the big pain in the behind and the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: weather sucked and all that. And I'm happy that I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: got to meet you. And I'm sure we'll be back
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: at some point, and you know, we're somewhere around there
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and you can come by and say loo. Although we're
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: not going to be doing three of these things in
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: a row. That one and then that's it. That should
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: be all for the weekend, maybe one and a half.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: That's that's about it. Cal from the OC and so
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: col writes and he says, hey, Ben, and if you're
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: with anybody whoever, that is the Washington Nationals have gone
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: viral and I have to know, are you interested in
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: going to d C to have their newest treat at
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the concession Stance. And then he heard about this Nico
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: they started selling apparently this week. According to cal shoestring
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: fries made out of crispy fried hot dogs and paired
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: with Chipotle ranch sauce. Well, I don't need the ranch dressing.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I've been clear about that. Yeah, it's it's fries made
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: out of hot dogs.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: So that sounds absolutely delicious.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I don't know what would be wrong with it.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: It's Burger King didn't I don't know if they still do.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Didn't they have chicken fries, fries made out of little
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: chicken tenders or something like that. I believe they had
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to have.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Burger King had those chicken fries. They had those, and
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: it's changed now in Canada at least, and now they
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: had those tiny delicious onion rings back in the day.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: That's changed.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I look this does not look I'm looking
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: at at a photo here. I mean it's I don't
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: need the ranch. I can substitute that alvers, like a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: barbecue or something like that. I don't necessarily need it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I'm looking at it. It looks like it
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: has like a Chipotle mayo or something. With the picture
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: I'm seeing. Yeah, oh, they put they put a little
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: fresh Parsley on it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Oh this looks ah, you're in let's let's go. Yeah,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: there he goes booking a trip right now. Yeah, see that,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that's the only reason to go to a Nationals game.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: You could just go and look the other way and
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: just eat the eat the fries, their shoes, their shoestring
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: fried hot dog pieces, and uh yeah, it'll look bad.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I'd eat that cow, I'd go, I'd go. I don't
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: want the sauce, but I you know you can have
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: You're not my saucenico. I'm good on that. Randy, Randy
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: from the Bay Rights in of the mail bag, he says, Ben,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: do you feel bad for Jake Paul not being allowed
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to attend w w E events? All right, First of all, Randy, Uh,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know Jake Paul, I don't know Logan Paul.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I just annoyed by what I know of them, So
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I don't feel bad for them. And this is all
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: part of their shtick. And I don't know what happened.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on relations between Jake Paul and
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Dana White. I know there was some kind of beef
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: that happened between those guys, and I'm not sure exactly
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: how deep it goes. I just know from the people
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I deal with in my world that know Dana White.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Of all the people you don't want to get on
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the bad side of, Dana White is in like the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: top one percent of people you don't want to be
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: on the bad side of, because he will mess you
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: up if he has the opportunity. From what I've heard,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: So I don't feel bad. Do you follow any of this, Nico,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: any of the Paul Brothers or wrestling or any of
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Are you in any of that world?
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Well, obviously there's a huge fight put on by Jake
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Paul tomorrow will Saturday, So it depends when you listen
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: to this podcast already come out or you haven't seen
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: it just yet. But also the fact that Dana White,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: he looks like Kingpin from Spider Man. I don't know
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: if I don't think that's the guy you want to
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: be messing around with. Yes, obviously he has a video
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: out there. He throws punches. Whether you're a female or
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: a male, he will take care of you.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Well, he's equal opportunity Dana White. Yeah. I again, I
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: don't know Randy much about that world. I'm happy that
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Apparently both Jake Paul and Logan Paul have fully monetized
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: their social media celebrities, so good for them. Reggie from
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Detroit writes in on the mail bag and he says, Ben,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: are you going to do a six line salute when
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: you get back on the radio for the Cars for
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Kids jingle? Which will be going away? He says, and
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: it is apparently true. Who Now, I don't even know
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: if this is a thing you know about Nico being
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: in Vancouver. It's a very famous I'm assuming you've heard
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: it somewhere along the way, even if it's not on
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: radio in Vancouver. But the Cars for Kids jingle.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Kars cars for Kids.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly exactly. They give out the number eight
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: seven seven Cars for Kids, whatever it is. And so
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: this has now the story this week, and it is true, Reggie.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: That's the state of California. The geniuses and the People's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Republic of California have now pulled the plug on the
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Cars for Kids jingle. This is after a lawsuit. So
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: this guy, this goes back five years twenty twenty one.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: This guy who lives in California sued the charity, claiming
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: that he donated his car after hearing repeatedly the jingle
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: is just a total thing that gets in your brain
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: and you just it's a mind worm. You can't get
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: it out. And and he thought it would help underprivileged
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: children in California. Well, it turns out that the corner
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: of this lawsuit cars for kids. It actually helps out
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: kids in the New York, New Jersey area. It's like
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: an orthodox charity in that area, and that most of
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: the money goes to that. And so anyway, they the court,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: the judge in California said that they violated the California
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: law as I understand it, because it's unfair the way
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the song goes, the jingle and all that they failed
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: to disclose that the donations primarily will not go to
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: kids in California. So they have thirty days, I guess
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: less than that now to get rid of the jingle.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: And it's one of those things. When I got into
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: radio nico I, it was a detail end of the jingles.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: There were radio stations that still played jingles. And I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: love jingles. I think they're the coolest thing in the world.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: And if I owned a radio station, I would have
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: jingles my childhood. And I'm gonna date myself with some
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: of this, but I remember certain advertisers. For example, if
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I and I'll say this randomly on the radio, so
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I'll say pop pop phizz fizz. Oh, what a relief
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: it is. That's a commercial from when I was a kid, right,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Or I wish I was an Oscar Meyer reader, you know.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: And that's another jingle from a commercial when I was
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a kid. Or I don't want to grow up, I
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: want to be a Toys r Us kid. These are
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: all jingles from my youth. I am an older dude
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: now and I still remember all of those jingles and
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I can recite them. I love them. They're wonderful, and
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: for some reason we got away from them, and that
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Cars for Kids thing was the last. I don't want
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: to say the last, but it was really the last
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: longest running jingle which is an earworm and your brain
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: just replays it involuntarily and all that. Do you have
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: a favorite jingle, Nico, and you are these the same
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: jingles you heard in Canada or you have different jingles
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: that you have that we don't have here in Vancouver. Yeah,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I got to talk about this Cars for Kids because
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: there was two key things that we learned here. First
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: thing is this lawsuit's been going on since twenty twenty one,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: which I found shocking, so for five years. The second
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: thing is this company for cars for kids. They're taking
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: in forty five million dollars annually. Who is donating these
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: types of cars for them to take in forty million dollars?
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I did not see that. That is a massive That
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: is a massive money. But it's a great what a
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: great racket because like even a total beater car that
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: had nothing left, it's still the metal, and like you
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: can you can make money from parts of the car
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: even I don't. People can donate cars that aren't drivable,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: I guess, and all that stuff. But yeah, forty five
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: million is wow. That is next level. That is uh,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: that is outstanding. My god. All right, moving on from that,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: what else do we have? I'm trying to think. I'm
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: trying to think of there any other jingle? I use one,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I use one the other night in Nico.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: It's not really a jingle, but I guess it kind
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: of is Recalla.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: That was Or how about the best part of waiting?
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, bolder in your cup? There you go. I love it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: I love it back in the nineties, there was this
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: place called Chili's and they had in the US anyway,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: if they had it in Canada, but they had. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: want my baby back, Baby bag Baby. That's one of
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: the all time great ones too, all right, I love it.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: I love it. Good email question by Reggie in Detroit.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I know we're going long here, so we do a
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: couple more with our buddy Nico on the mail bag.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Benny, are you gonna go thumbs up?
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Or this is Mike from Las Vegas. He says thumbs
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: up or thumbs down on torts the Golden Knights. I
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: saw this, so the Golden Knights law. They beat the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Ducks to advance in the Stanley Cup playoffs last week
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: and then violated Stanley Cup media protocols with John Tortorella,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: who got fined one hundred thousand dollars, the coach of
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the team in Vancouver or not Vancouver and used to
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: coach in Vancouver in Vegas and also according to the
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: according to Mike here, they lost a second round draft
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: pick the Golden the Vegas Golden Knights for violating media regulations.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: That is intense. I'll go thumbs I love Torts, my
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: favorite hockey coach. We sucked at a time you cannot suck.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: That's a John Tortorella quote, one of my all time
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: grave favorite quotes from anyone other than like Tomulus Sword
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: or something like that, or the late Lee Ilia. Yeah,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: it's a big though. The NHL has always complained my
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: entire life, Nico. The people in hockey have complained. They
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: have said, listen, we need more media attention and we're
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: not getting enough media. And I know things have changed.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: The media is different now than it used to be
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: when we were growing up, but it's still a big deal.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: It's still more people pay attention to the mainstream media
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: than people like to give credit to. And to not
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: send the players out and not open the locker room
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: and all that. Yeah, you can't. You're contractually obligated. Whether
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: you like this or not. It's in every standard contract.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: The Boiler play to these contracts. These guys have to
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: talk to the media. And I love Torts and all that,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: and he's my guy. You know, you just gotta you know,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: you gotta do it. You don't have to say anything.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: You can just give cliche answers, but you got to
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: at least make some kind of effort there.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: So yeah, he could have just easily said I'm here,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: so I don't get fine, But did you see that
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: Mitch Marner goal in the first period? I think it
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: was I don't know if you've seen it.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: But yeah, wow yeah wo. How And if if Vegas
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: ends up winning, are they going to have to send
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: to our friends in Toronto? If Mitch Marner is on
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the you know this team and they end up winning,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen to the Maple Leaf fans? What do
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you think they're going to do over there?
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: Not that that's going to be a riot, they're gonna
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: be Yeah, And they hired probably well right now, one
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: of the worst gms possible to tag along with Matt Sundeen.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: So this is not looking good for the Leaves.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be well. I remember when he played
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: for the Leaves. It was all wow, this guy's yeah,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: you just can't get it done in the big moment
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: and all that, and there most pretty much everyone with
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: the Maple least my entire life. That's always not that
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I'm a hockey guy, Nico. Occasionally I'll occasionally, you know,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: watch hockey, and it's always the same arguments like, well,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: these guys, you know, you put on that maple sweater
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you choke in big games,
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: all right, Sam from Kentucky writes in he says, Ben,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: are you ready for the World Cup? No? I'm not.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I need to get ready. I actually I will pay
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: attention to the World Cup. I know, Nico, you're you're
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: a soccer guy for football as everyone else calls it.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Your son's a big star, and it's gonna be a
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: great young guy making his way through the soccer world.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: But Sam sent a couple of stories here, so I
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: think this is actually perfect for you, Nico, and we'll
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: see you have some takes on this. I have some takes.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: So the World Cup has confirmed, according to Sam, he
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: sent me a couple of these stories, the World Cup
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: has confirmed a super Bowl style halftime show at the final,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna have. According to this, Shakira, Madonna and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: several other huge name artists will be performing at the
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: World Cup final. How long is halftime at the World Cup?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Is it longer than the Super Bowl or is it shorter?
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. I have no idea how long
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: that is. Say it's the first ever halftime show in
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: World Cup final history. So is that true if they've
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: never done that before.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: No, this is also the first year where they're doing
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: commercial breaks. They're doing water breaks on the field, on
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: the pitch and so that they can monetize on the
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: commercial breaks. So it's never really happened before ever.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that was always the argument, right, was
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: that that was the thing that really hurt from a
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: TV standpoint the sport because they didn't have the traditional
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: built in TV timeouts like football and basketball, they just
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: have built in time Baseball has timeouts. Every half inning,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: there's a timeout, but they don't have that in in soccer.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Sam also sent this in he says World Cup ticket
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: to one game. He says, it was revealed that it
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: would cost a Haitian soccer fan almost twenty five years
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: of salary to attend the opening game the World Cup
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: against Scotland. Twenty five years of salary. Oh my god,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: man alive, are you gonna be able to go Nicote
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: any of these games? I know your son's obviously a
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: big soccer guy and making his way through that world
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: and all that. I guess there's games all over, right,
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: It's not just on the West coast. It'll be games
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: in New York and Boston. So I guess you can
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: pick your poison where you want to go, right.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's going to be everywhere. In Mexico they have
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: three three cities out there that are going to host games.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: But no the amount of people that are going to
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: be out there, and obviously we know with this being
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: the global sport, even though in the NFL says otherwise,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: But yeah, there's going to be so many people, and
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: too many people create too many problems.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: That is true. That is that is true. And you
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: can sit in your home on a nice sofa and
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: have as many drinks and snacks as you want, you
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: can watch and you know, have some fun and all that.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I am looking forward to the World Cup because I
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: know there's going to be a lot of I always
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: look for the story within the story, Like the soccer
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: stuff's cool and all that, but it's really about what
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: goes on around the games. That's always the stuff that
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: makes for good talk radio. So much like in previous
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: World Cups, when we've talked about the different storylines where
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: somebody inevitably will piss off an entire country and then
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: there'll be that story and then the you know, coach
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: will say something stupid and then that'll be good for
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: a couple of days. And so so that's all good.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Eric from Tampa writes in on the mail bag. He says, hey, hey, Ben,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: are you concerned if you go to France about the deer?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: And he of course. I don't know why he phrased
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: it this way, because I've never been to France and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not concerned about deer. But according to police in
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: France Nico, they are now warning drivers to be on
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: high alert for drunk deer that have been over indulging
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: infirmated fermented fruits around France. It's that time of the year,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: and I guess these deer are getting hammered and they're
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: going out and they're walking in traffic. What could possibly
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: go wrong? What could possibly go wrong with that? Yeah?
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what else to add to that.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: That's that's outs Watch out for Bambi, Yeah, exactly. Disney
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: can remake Bambie do that? Why not? What else we have?
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Eric in Ohios has been it was great. Meaning you
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: in Kentucky a couple of weeks back. I hope you'll
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: come back soon here we can go to a Reds game.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Sounds like you and Robbie and the gang had a
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: good time. Yeah. I have a lot of fun with
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Robbie and Queen rocks In and Tommy from Atlanta. And
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I can't close the deal. Neil and his son that
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: was That was a very good time, he says, Ben.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I know you work in Sherman Oaks. Have you ever
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: run into Britney Spears? No? Oh, I have not.
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I did see this story in Nico. This is a
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: great story from page six and TMZ this week. The
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: iconic singer Britney Spears not iconic anymore. But she got
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: into a I don't know what to describe this. She
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: made a hullablue at a bar called the Blue Dog
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Tavern in Sherman Oaks, California. And I do not want
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: to exaggerate this, Nico. This bar is roughly a block
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and a half from where I've worked the last almost
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: thirty years of my life. It's right down the street.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: It's literally a block away from the Fox Sports radio
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: compound there the iHeartMedia building in Sherman Oaks. And I
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: just love the fact that Britney Spears, who was at
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: least for a couple of years, the most famous female
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: singer that America had in that age group. And she's
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: out there at this little dive bar in Sherman Oaks
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and she I guess, she walked in with a guy
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: and a gal and they walked around the restaurant. She
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: was holding a knife. At one point she lit a
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: cigarette near the door, which of course is illegal everywhere
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: in California. And then they said her table looked like
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: a toddler had been there, with food everywhere. It was
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: just a mess, and all that. She's obviously got a
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: few issues, more than a few issues and all that.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: But my goodness, Britney Spears, that's crazy that area and
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Nico will have to get you in there. At some point.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Right above where we broadcast is this neighborhood called bell Air,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: which is a famous La neighborhood. A lot of the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Subbys live, and I guess they're so bored where they live.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: They all come down and shop and hang out at
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: the bars and restaurants right around where we do the
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: show from. And it's really wild at night because a
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: lot of these guys have these exotic race cars and
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: they'll drive around when I'm doing the show in the
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: middle of the night, and they'll race down Ventura Boulevard
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and se pal Buta and and but you'll see him
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: like the Whole Foods Market or you know, different restaurants
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: around time. But I've not run into Britney Spears. I'd
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: love to have her on the podcast though, if she'd
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: come on. I mean, she's probably got some amazing stories
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: to tell about her situation. All right, On that note,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I think we'll get out. We've gone along here, Nico.
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  Speaker 1: You know your time is very viable. Thank you for
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: being part of this. I wanted to get you on here.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: We rotate some folks through the mailbag every Sunday here
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: and it's been great. You were You've been a big
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: friend of the show, Nico, and I wish you best
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: of luck with your son. I know he's he's cranking up.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: He's coming back right he's on the injured list right now.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: But we'll be back in a couple of weeks and
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: then back out traveling all over the place. I imagined
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the soccer events and whatnot, so exciting times with that,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and thank you for listening and all that. We appreciate
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: your time.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you Malan militia.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Outstanding and we will be back tonight, regular week, no
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: day days off. I will be there on the radio
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: show eleven pm in the West, two am in the
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: East all week long as we break down the NBA
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: playoffs and everything else. And we will catch you later
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: as Dick and Dayton would say bye bye later.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Skater