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Speaker 1: I mean that's that That's the thing. I mean, most

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Speaker 1: of these jobs. I say it all the time that

426
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Speaker 1: the advice I always say is that most of these

427
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Speaker 1: jobs in radio and television and voiceover are from who

428
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Speaker 1: you know, not what you know. You know. I hate

429
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Speaker 1: to say that, but I feel like that's the case.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the case in most professions. It's like

431
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Speaker 1: networking and and things like that. So that's the hard part.

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Speaker 1: And I would say if you're christ and Iowa, if

433
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Speaker 1: you've got good audio, which you obviously think you do

434
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Speaker 1: as a voiceover guy, you've got to find a way

435
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Speaker 1: to get in on these auditions or at least have

436
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Speaker 1: have your stuff heard, which often means you have to

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Speaker 1: get an agent, which is problematic, but they and the

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00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: good thing about most agent you don't have to pay

439
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Speaker 1: them until you actually get something. And then when you

440
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:05,919
Speaker 1: when you have to pay them, or they take a

441
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: big chunk out of your money. And don't don't forget

442
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: the celebrity aspect of the voiceover work. And uh, speaking

443
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Speaker 1: to Mel Proctor, you know he's he's just a guy,

444
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,159
Speaker 1: and yet you know he's been honing his craft. And

445
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: some guy who played baseball for ten years is gonna

446
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: is gonna get a job before he does, not because

447
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Speaker 1: he's any better at it, just because people know who

448
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Speaker 1: he is. They recognize who he is. And you know,

449
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Speaker 1: James Earl Jones does you know so many and you

450
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Speaker 1: know there's they're those those really good voiceover gigs tend

451
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: to just go to actors and people that recognize their voice,

452
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Speaker 1: so it makes it even tougher to break into the business. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: you're referring course to the great jock occracy, Howard co

454
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Speaker 1: Sell talking about that, which is even more pronounced now

455
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Speaker 1: than it was even when Howard was around back and

456
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Speaker 1: back in his days. All right, Mike from Vegas, right

457
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Speaker 1: since says what you propose to the NHL to attract

458
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Speaker 1: more viewers? More viewers? Let's see here, what could the

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Speaker 1: NHL do well? The problem with the NHL, on tell,

460
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 1: there's always been the it's hard to keep track of

461
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: the puck, right, it's not. It's not really television friendly sport.

462
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: Remember when Fox tried the glowing puck, that tracer puck, Yeah,

463
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Speaker 1: and that See. I think they should go back to

464
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Speaker 1: something like that because the technology is a lot better

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Speaker 1: now than it was when they did. It was like

466
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Speaker 1: they had this tail behind it the whole time. Like, Yes,

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00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: if you just make it like a little bigger looking

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Speaker 1: that it's easier to follow. I agree, I think they

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Speaker 1: should go back to something like that. Are you a

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Speaker 1: hockey guy, big Mike? Oh? Yeah, but I I would

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Speaker 1: say I'm a much bigger fan of hockey in the

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Speaker 1: stadium than I am at watching it on TV. I mean,

473
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Speaker 1: that's one of those sports that really helps you to

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Speaker 1: be there. It's a lot easier to follow the puck. Huh.

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Speaker 1: Now I look at you get you, and you hear

476
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Speaker 1: the sound when they crash into the oh yeah, and

477
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Speaker 1: you get to see like the empty ice when they're

478
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Speaker 1: making a line change and there's only like three guys

479
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: on the ice at once, and then you know, it's

480
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: just it's just a much different visual. I'm an anti

481
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: net guy. I liked it when the pluck would go

482
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Speaker 1: flying into the crowd and people would be scrambling to

483
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: get the puck. But there's nets everywhere you go to

484
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: baseball games, that's everywhere. That's nets. Nets, nets. That's that's

485
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Speaker 1: that's annoy Enough of the nets. Uh. Kathleen from Madison, Wisconsin,

486
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Speaker 1: wright saying hello, Kathleen, She says, how did you meet

487
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Speaker 1: your wife? Uh? Kathleen, I met my wife online dating,

488
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: believe it or not. I was doing some online dating

489
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: and struck out quite a bit. And finally, if you

490
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: turn over enough rocks eventually, you'll I think, I think

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Speaker 1: the phrase actually, if you kiss enough frogs. Isn't that

492
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: something like that? You know, yeah, something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's how I I met my wife.

494
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Speaker 1: And when I met her, I didn't tell her Wilton Radio.

495
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: I told her I did sales, and at that time

496
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:06,920
Speaker 1: I had my website, So I think I did. I

497
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: think I might have told her I did some website

498
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: stuff something like that. So that's the the story on that,

499
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Speaker 1: Big Mike. Did you meet your wife at? Howd you

500
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: meet your wife at a bar? Online? What you do?

501
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: I met my wife at a bar, actually a bar, Yeah,

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00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,639
Speaker 1: I was. That's that's the traditional way to do it.

503
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: That's like that's how people. Yeah, well, yeah, we met

504
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 1: at a bar, and that's what we've been married for

505
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: one years now. So thank gradually, Jose in Northern California says,

506
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: my lord Ben, thanks again for having your little brother

507
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: Brian Finley on the show. It is so funny when

508
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: you abuse him. Had to listen to the show twice,

509
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: he said, But that and then he wants me to

510
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: replace gag On with Brian Finley. Well, I don't know

511
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: about them permanently. Yeah, I don't know about that. That's

512
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: a little bunch I mean, guess gonna misses so much

513
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: time anyway, it's almost like he's he's here half the time.

514
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: So it's not that big Kevin from Rockford, Illinois writes, So,

515
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: he says, Mr Maller, in all of your years living

516
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: in the not so great state of California, have you

517
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: ever come across any exotic wildlife such as rattlesnakes, mountain lions,

518
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: big horn sheep, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Uh No, not really.

519
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: I didn't see a buffalo on Catalina Island, and but

520
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: that that's where the buffalo rome. Occasionally they'll come into,

521
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: like the back of avalon the city. There you'll see

522
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Speaker 1: a buffalo. And I used to hike around the hills

523
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: in l A and I there were were mountain lions.

524
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Speaker 1: I saw a bobcat. But that doesn't really intimidate you.

525
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: What about you, big Mike here right? No outdoors guy?

526
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: Sure I have yeah, I've I've hidden from bears before. Really,

527
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: you know, dude, I was how scared? Were you were

528
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: you like peeing your pants were Actually it was I

529
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: was staying in Tahoe and I had climbed upstairs to

530
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: the there was like a rooftop like patio thing where

531
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Speaker 1: you kind of see the view of the whole valley.

532
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: It was beautiful, and I as I go to walk

533
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: back down, I see people are like waving at me,

534
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what's going on. I looked down and

535
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: coming up the condo steps and this was, you know,

536
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: big condo complex. Was a black bear in her cub

537
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: just walking up the steps that I was about to

538
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Speaker 1: go walk back down to get back to my condo room.

539
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: So I like shut the door and and hit around

540
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 1: the corner. But uh yeah, that's probably my closest encounter.

541
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: And I tried to pick up a snake on a

542
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Speaker 1: hike once. I thought it was just a curvy stick, right,

543
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna I was gonna pick up

544
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Speaker 1: this cool looking walking stick. I was like, awesome, it's

545
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: laying across the trail. I reached down to pick it up,

546
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: and it moved, And yes, I did scream like a

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00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: little girl. Yeah, well you're and put You're so much

548
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: bigger than the snake. But still that venom the venom, right,

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00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 1: yeah sake. Man, it wasn't well, I thought it was

550
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: a stick. It wasn't supposed to move. Yeah, yeah, be

551
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Speaker 1: sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show

552
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. Jason from Rocky Mount, Virginia, rights,

553
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: Since since Ben you talked about your hat collection, that's right,

554
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: I have noticed the mad Hatter of sports chatter. It's

555
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 1: one of my many nicknames there. So it got me thinking.

556
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: We have a few minor league teams in the area there,

557
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: he says, remind me your hat size and mailing address. Well, well, Jason,

558
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Speaker 1: I would be very kind. I'm a size eight. I'd

559
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: be very large, Big Mike. You probably have about the

560
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: same side. You have a large head yourself. I have

561
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: a large head, but not that big dude. I'm like three.

562
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I'm I'm a size eight. Uh. And

563
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: you can send it, just send it to Fox Sports Radio.

564
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Speaker 1: The address is what is it? Let me think of

565
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: the address here, boy, I don't know what is you.

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Speaker 1: You're there, big Mike? What is the Let me get

567
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: the I gotta go to the car here. I got

568
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:06,239
Speaker 1: it's won five to six right zero venturable of our

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Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks, California nine one zero nine four zero three?

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Speaker 1: And what sweet do they have to send it to you? Now?

571
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: Because the mail rooms changed now that they put your

572
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: name on it, just put my name on. I don't

573
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: attention Ben mallor it'll get to you. There you go. Yeah,

574
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: they've moved a lot of things around during the pandemic,

575
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: so I don't even I don't even know where to

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00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: get the mail now. I have no idea where to

577
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: get the mail. When I come in, I'm like, I

578
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: don't know where the mail is. So it's on the

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00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: table by the kitchen. Just so you know, there's actually

580
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: some stuff sitting waiting there for you. I'm meant to

581
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: tell you, really, yeah, come and pick up my mail.

582
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: But oh, did I tell you my favorite hat story?

583
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: Do you do you know this one? Have you heard

584
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 1: this one? That Richie Sexon once spent time on the

585
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: d L because the equipment manager saw on the schedule

586
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: was like the assistant assistant manager grabbed a hat, saw

587
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: that his hat size was like eight and a quarter

588
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: or something like that, just he had a giant head.

589
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: Thought it was a mistake. I thought it was a typo.

590
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: So pulled him a seven and a quarter hat and

591
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: Richie Sexton sprained his neck trying to jam the lid

592
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: on the top of his head because it was too small,

593
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: is there? I remember that? So I thought he he

594
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: thought he had like he had he had intense headache

595
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: or something like that, I thought. And he wasn't sure

596
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: what was going on. And then they figured out that

597
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: his hat was he ended up all with DL because

598
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: his hat was too small. Was he as dumb as

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00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: a box of rocks though? Because yeah, like, wouldn't you

600
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: know if you put a hat on, it's not it

601
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: doesn't fit, especially a baseball player that has to have

602
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: hats on every day at their job. You think you'd

603
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: figure it out, Like what's going on with that? Yeah?

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00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, dumb as a box of rocks? A

605
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: R R J in Sane and Tonio. Right, So he says,

606
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: but what's your favorite? What was your favorite board game

607
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: to play? I don't know if you're asking now or not.

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00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't play a lot of board games these days,

609
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: although probably gonna be having a big, big step in

610
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: a in a couple of months, I'll probably played more

611
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: board games. I'll explain why more later. But I like

612
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: the classics and the games when I was younger that

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00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 1: are still popular today. Like I played Battleship, but I

614
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 1: mean it was a big deal Electronic Battleship. When that

615
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: came out, it was a big Monopolies is still huge.

616
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: Trivial Pursuit was a big game back in the day,

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Speaker 1: Connect for Sorry, Operation Um, Hungry Hungry Hip Hops. When

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Speaker 1: I was a kid, I love that. That was a

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Speaker 1: fun game. There was a game called mouse Trap that

620
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: had always weird. Yeah, yeah, I gotta we were a

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Speaker 1: big board games because we didn't have you know, yeah,

622
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: it was like a big deal. We had to play

623
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Speaker 1: the board games played many hours ago. Clue you name it.

624
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a scrabble guy. That would that be my

625
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: go to scrabbles your go Yeah, I like like a

626
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: little random trivia stuff. True in Pursuit probably the game

627
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: is that play now? I would say Trivial Pursuit Monopoly,

628
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: but a good Connect Forward game. Wrong with that. I'm

629
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: done with the good game of risk. I just gotta,

630
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, mark some time on my calendar for it. Yeah,

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00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: that's right, that's the problem. Yeah, we're old guys, a

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Speaker 1: little big Mike. We can have like game night now,

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Speaker 1: we can have like board game night night. That's what

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Speaker 1: old people do, right, old people stuff. I was not aware.

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Speaker 1: I'm in let's do it, Okay, Carlos in Bang Bang Houston, Texas, right,

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Speaker 1: since says Bay, Uh, you're very smart man. Well, Carlos

637
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Speaker 1: think it's very kind of you to say that, starting

638
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,280
Speaker 1: to always suck up to the person you want. Answering

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Speaker 1: the question, he says, my question is what happened all

640
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Speaker 1: the Fox Sports regional channels? Why are they called bally Sports? Uh?

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Speaker 1: He says, uh, Well, the reason they're called bally Sports

642
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: is because Fox Sports sold all of their regional channels,

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00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: not all of them, but most of them, and they

644
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: were rebranded. If they're not owned by Fox Sports anymore,

645
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: run by Fox Sports, they were rebranded in ballies. With

646
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: sports gambling becoming more and more popular state by state,

647
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: and that really the gold rush for sports gambling, Bali's invested.

648
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Speaker 1: They're they're trying to get that brand to be the

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Speaker 1: go to brand for people that are gamblers, and so

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00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: they put their name on all these networks. So it's

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Speaker 1: the same people work at those networks. It's just called

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Speaker 1: the Bally's Sports Southern California or Dallas or where wherever

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Speaker 1: your wherever your location is. So that's the answer. And

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Speaker 1: he also want to know if with my birthday coming up.

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Speaker 1: You want to know if guess Guesscan or gas Can

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Speaker 1: will be getting me another steak? Well, I hope not.

657
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: And then he recommended this is actually a good idea

658
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Speaker 1: for a guest on the podcast Mattress Mac. Do you

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Speaker 1: know who Mattress Mac is? Big Mike, do not know

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00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: who Mattress. So Mattress Mac is this local celebrity in Houston.

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00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: He's the He's the bed king of Houston, right they

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Speaker 1: call him. Thus, Mattress Mackie sells beds. I think there's

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Speaker 1: other household products, whatever you sell, but this guy has

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Speaker 1: a deal every year where if you buy your furniture

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00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: and the cheating as Astros, for example, end up winning

666
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: the World Series, you're you don't have to pay for

667
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: your furniture. It's free, right, It's a great marketing gimmick.

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Speaker 1: He's done it with all the teams in Houston. Will

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Speaker 1: do it for the Texans, the Rockets, the I don't

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Speaker 1: know that you can do it for the Rockets these

671
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: days because they're terrible, but the Astroids. And he did

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Speaker 1: it for the n c A tournament with Houston, the

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Speaker 1: University of Houston. And so what ends up happening is

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Speaker 1: if it gets close. Because what Mattress Mac does is

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00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: he takes out an insurance premium. That's the way the

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00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: scam works. And uh, and so the insurance actually pays it,

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00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: but you gotta pay the premium and all that and

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00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: to cover your losses, your potential losses. If it gets

679
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: down to the championship game, Mattress Mac well then hedge

680
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: and he will bet millions of dollars against the team

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00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: that he has on where the risk is. So like

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Speaker 1: the Astros playing the Dodgers, he bet a bunch of

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Speaker 1: money on the Dodgers just in case, you know, the

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Speaker 1: Astros actually ended up winning. Uh, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So you got you know, he would have to bet

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Speaker 1: on the Yeah, that's right, I screwed that up bat

687
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: job by me. Yeah, so bell in the Astros to

688
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Speaker 1: cover himself in case the other team one. That's right

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00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: there you go. So, but yeah, I would talk Mattress.

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Speaker 1: I would put Mattress back on. It seems like an

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00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: interesting quite a character to do that. But another, you know,

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00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: that's not just a Houston thing. I know that in Boston. Uh,

693
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: they had a thing with the Red Sox where if

694
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: you you bought furniture, you got your stuff for free.

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00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: If the Red Sox won in the World Series, those

696
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: things pop up. Barry in Nashville rights in the music City,

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Speaker 1: He says, Ben, I slacked off last week. I didn't

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Speaker 1: ask him in a question. Job by me, yet clearly

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00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: very bad job by you, he says. Now that Gascon

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Speaker 1: has joined the intermittent fasting, both of you can answer this. Well,

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Speaker 1: he can't, he's not here, but big my canons. How

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Speaker 1: do you fight back the hunger pains when you fast? Uh,

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00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: he says, And when you end your fast, you weigh

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Speaker 1: yourself right away and does the weight loss register immediately. Alright,

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Speaker 1: couple of things now. First of all, I'm past the

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Speaker 1: hunger pain stage. Like I don't really I don't really

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Speaker 1: get that I did when I first started fasting. But

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Speaker 1: it's to me, it's just mind over matter. If you

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Speaker 1: don't mind, it doesn't matter. And I just would drink.

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Speaker 1: I drink a lot of water and try to fill

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Speaker 1: my stomach up with as much water as I can

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00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: because there's no calories in it. And then I'll try

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Speaker 1: to sweat that out when I go to the gym. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then I don't. I don't wear myself. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to have it. I'll wear myself occasionally,

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Speaker 1: but I like to wait so I get some serious results.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not a day to day weigh yourself. Gay,

718
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: You're supposed to do that, but I don't like doing it.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I don't think you should be

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Speaker 1: weighing yourself because weight is only one small aspect of

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Speaker 1: your overall health. And while yes, it's important to stay

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Speaker 1: at a good weight, it's more important to live a

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Speaker 1: healthy lifestyle. And if you're too focused on just your weight,

724
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Speaker 1: you're gonna lose focus on the things that are important,

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00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: which is being healthy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Now are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you in the fasting cult? Big mincre I would

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Speaker 1: say that I do tend to try to avoid eating

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Speaker 1: heavy at night, not necessarily fasting, but I do. I

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Speaker 1: have tried to, you know, make dinner time earlier. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to, you know, skip the desserts. I know that

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Speaker 1: if I am going to have something that has too

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Speaker 1: many calories in it or too much sugar in it,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to eat it earlier in the day,

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Speaker 1: so you know, I have a chance to burn it. Off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm near with you. To me, the most important heavy

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Speaker 1: meal they should be lunch. I'm not. I don't really,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a breakfast guy. I mean, I just usually

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Speaker 1: I'm doing the overnight, so I'm sleeping during breakfast. But

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Speaker 1: I I'll get up and I'll be like lunch when

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Speaker 1: I guess is breakfast because I'm breaking a fast. But

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Speaker 1: I'm a big lunch guy. Not that I don't like dinner,

742
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: but it's more more important lunch. The last one. Christie

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Speaker 1: writes him from Parts Unknown and says, my question is

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Speaker 1: if one of your younger callers and fans asked you

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Speaker 1: to go to prom as a celebrity, would you say yes? Uh, well,

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Speaker 1: that would be awkward. I never went to my own prom,

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00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: so that would be weird, Christie. But yeah, I I

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Speaker 1: would be down with it, although I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: probably have to, you know, go hang out with some

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Speaker 1: dude or whatever, because I don't think there's a lot

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00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: of high school women girls in our demographic. I would say,

752
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: I don't think they're they're grabbing. I'm going I know

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00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: I'm being I'm being sexist there. I just think the

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00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: general sports talk your consumer typically middle aged people usually dude,

755
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: that's uh, I guess yeah, but who am I? So? Anyway,

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00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: but how weald would that be if I went to

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00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 1: a prom, Big Mike, which that would be very weird.

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00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 1: That would be very awkward for everyone involved, for everyone involved. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, listen, it's been a fun weekend, Big Mike.

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00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: Look at that. You survived three podcast well the last

761
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: two you helped out on the first one behind the scenes.

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Speaker 1: But here we've reached the end of the road Big Mike.

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Speaker 1: So I thank you for your help this weekend. I

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00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: made it. I'm glad. It was fun, had a good time. Yeah,

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00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: be on standby because Giscon might not be here next

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00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: week or the week after, so you might oh yeah, yeah,

767
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: that phone could ring. You might get the phone call.

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00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: Yeah anyway, Yeah, all right, listen, having great rest of

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Speaker 1: your Sunday, Remember the radio show to Night to Night

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00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: back behind the microphones, the powerful microphones and Fox Sports

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00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: Radio will be bloviating the overnight away at two am

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00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: in the East on Monday, but eleven pm in the

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00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: West on a Sunday night into Monday, will recap all

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00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: the events of the weekend here in the sporting world,

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Speaker 1: and we will talk to you. Then