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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes

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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 3: In the air awhere The Fifth Hour with Me, Big

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Speaker 3: Ben and Danny g Radio on a Saturday, Saturday Saturday,

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Speaker 3: providing you with weekend pod fun. On this the eleventh

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Speaker 3: day of the great month of May. It is National

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Speaker 3: Eat what you Want Day. But more importantly, Danny, it

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Speaker 3: is the day after the Great Southern They Meet and

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Speaker 3: Greet of twenty twenty four, the first ever in the

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Speaker 1: As we hung out, we had a great time.

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Speaker 3: But Danny, I'm sitting in the remote studio here in

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Speaker 3: a secret location somewhere in the Carolinas in a garage,

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Speaker 4: I with a bear in a cave.

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly, So I want to get back, and I'm

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Speaker 3: Then I will be able to tell all the tales

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Speaker 3: will I will leave nothing out.

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Speaker 1: It's a podcast.

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Speaker 3: I can get into all the glorious details of the good,

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm disappointed that you didn't have authentic Southern food.

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Speaker 4: I know you're going to get that complaint a lot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, people complain about everything. But no, listen, it's

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Speaker 3: been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed my time, and

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Speaker 3: we're gonna make you wait. It's like a great cliffhanger

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Speaker 3: to next week's pod. So not only do we get

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Speaker 3: for next Friday's pod, the Postgame Show, because as you know,

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Speaker 4: Massive, very original.

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Speaker 3: No, no, we don't do that. No, all right, So

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Speaker 3: we have on this podcast. We've got the Carolina Welcome Committee, Sultry,

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Speaker 4: Probably looked like crap when he attended.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean it was pretty neat still to imagine,

440
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Speaker 3: like this guy would go on become the greatest NBA

441
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Speaker 3: player of all time, much better than Lebron James and

442
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Speaker 3: all that, and so.

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Speaker 4: So that was cool than Blake Griffin though, how dare you?

444
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Speaker 3: But but no, I did not. I'm not a total loser.

445
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 3: I did not go by where Jordan's father was murdered here.

446
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 3: I did not go by that spot got a murder.

447
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Speaker 3: I just went by the high school and uh, and

448
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 3: that was that. But as far as the story goes,

449
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 3: so Jordan has told this story many times, it has

450
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 3: been repeated. It is when a legend becomes the fact,

451
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Speaker 3: go with the legend.

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Speaker 4: And Michael had to respond.

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Speaker 3: And the legend of Jordan is that he was cut

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Speaker 3: from his high school basketball team. But Jordan played so

455
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 3: long ago, so long ago, Jordan played that there was

456
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Speaker 3: a rule at Laney High School that no freshman made

457
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Speaker 3: the varsity. You were always you were never going to

458
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Speaker 3: be on the varsity as a freshman. It would you

459
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Speaker 3: know that used to be even when we were in school, Danny,

460
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Speaker 3: I think they still a lot of places still had

461
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Speaker 3: that rule where yeh, yeah and so.

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Speaker 1: But Jordan was so offended by that.

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Speaker 3: But if you were a freshman, you were going to

464
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Speaker 3: play on the JV team, the JV sophomore whatever they had,

465
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 3: they had a lower level team and they had a

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Speaker 3: varsity team.

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Speaker 4: Did he feel like he was so good that they

468
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Speaker 4: should have bent that rule for him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess Jordan felt he took he took offense

470
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Speaker 3: to it. But it was like they were just punishing

471
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Speaker 3: Jordan nobody. It's kind of like Dean Smith at North

472
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Speaker 3: Carolina when Jordan was playing there. You know, how do

473
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 3: you remember the joke was, how do you stop Michael

474
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 3: Jordan have Dean Smith coaching him? Because Jordan was was

475
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 3: hardly used the way he was in the NBA and

476
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 3: his talent was not was not on display, and it

477
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 3: was just a different time in basketball. They didn't showcase

478
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Speaker 3: players the way that they do these days. So while

479
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 3: it is technically true Jordan was from the varsity, he

480
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 3: had no chance of making the varsity.

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Speaker 4: But wasn't the story that he was cut from the team?

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Speaker 1: No, he wasn't, ok, I understand man, the way I

483
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Speaker 1: was told to me.

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Speaker 4: I mean I've heard that version of it that he

485
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Speaker 4: was just cut from the team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, it was that he couldn't play on the varsity.

488
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 3: So I'm a player, you know he didn't.

489
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Speaker 4: This story is not it's so wonderful.

490
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 3: Then, well, the story and again I've I've done some

491
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Speaker 3: research on it. It was in imbellish to add to

492
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Speaker 3: the mystique in the legend of Michael Jordan.

493
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Speaker 1: And it's like you make it a little bigger.

494
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 3: You add around the edges, you add a little puffery

495
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Speaker 3: to it.

496
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: It's like a puffer fish.

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Speaker 4: Got it?

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Speaker 3: And listen Jordan to me, Like I said, he's the

499
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 3: greatest player I ever saw in that sport. And I

500
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 3: was lucky to see him play for the Chicago Bulls

501
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 3: several times back in the day in his prime with

502
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 3: with those great Bulls teams.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I'm I'm obviously biased.

504
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 3: So I went to his high school and it you know,

505
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:34,360
Speaker 3: I can check that off the list little Stockers. But

506
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 3: there's a bunch of people of some celebrity, I guess

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00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 3: some importance that have have have been from this area,

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Speaker 3: which I've never really spent much time thinking about. When

509
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 3: I think of North Carolina, I think of Charlotte or Raleigh.

510
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 3: I don't think of Wilmington, North Carolina.

511
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Speaker 1: I don't. But there's like a bunch of celebrities that

512
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: have houses here.

513
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 3: It's right on the beach, and everyone from John Travall

514
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 3: to Dustin Hoff been to Vana White people like that.

515
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 3: And there's a bunch of athletes that have come out

516
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 3: of this area. Imagine being an athlete from here and

517
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 3: you're all, you know, you're never going to match Michael Jordan, right,

518
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 3: you know. And there's been some other people that we've

519
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 3: heard of that have come out of this area. There

520
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 3: was a tight End. Remember Algae Crumpler of the tight End.

521
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 3: He's from around here.

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Speaker 4: Of course, one of the best names in all of

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00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 4: football for years.

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00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, Roman Gabriel Old, the former MVP in the NFL

525
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 3: quarterback he was from here. Sonny Jurgensen, another quarterback Hall

526
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: of Famer. Here's another pretty good basketball player, Meadow Lark

527
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 3: Lemon Harlem Globe Trotter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah from here.

529
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 3: Willie Stargell lived here, died, died around here, I believe,

530
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 3: I think in this area. Sugar Ray Leonard the boxer

531
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 3: spent time in this area.

532
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Speaker 1: So there's been a.

533
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 3: Bunch of random people, some big names, some not so big.

534
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 3: But yeah, Willie Stargell lived here at the end of

535
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 3: his life. H Willie Stargell and trot Nixon. If no

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00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 3: I remember, well, we'll get out on that. We get

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Speaker 3: the mail bag tomorrow in It's Mother's Day tomorrow at

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Speaker 3: the Fresh Pod.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't forget to get a card for all the

540
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 4: mamas in your life.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to take care of the moms in

542
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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 5: And anyway, Dan, we'll do another one tomorrow as we

544
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Speaker 5: continue with more tales from the Mallard travel Log, and

545
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 5: we'll answer random questions send in to the email by

546
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Speaker 5: you guys, and we'll see what we have.

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Speaker 1: Who knows.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna do a show for all you mother efforts.

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: But I having a wonderful rest of your Saturday. And

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Speaker 3: we'll catch you on the other side.

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Speaker 4: Austa pasta my relation