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

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Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He

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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse

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Speaker 2: of Hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth

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Speaker 2: Hour with Ben Mahller starts right now.

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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben

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Speaker 1: Mahler and Danny g Radio A Happy Sunday to you.

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Speaker 1: It's an NFL Sunday, Week ten in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: we got early action from Berlin. Berlin as the Colts.

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Speaker 1: They're getting saucy there, Colts with Sauce Gardener taking on

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Although you listened to this podcast when

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Speaker 1: you want, and so that might be over by the

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Speaker 1: time you're actually hearing this podcast. You listen whenever you want.

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Speaker 1: It's not like you have to listen first. We don't

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Speaker 1: put out live anyway. But Big Gay, Big Day today.

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Speaker 1: I am looking forward to it. I should be at

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Speaker 1: the Charger game God willing tonight, Chargers and Steelers, and

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Speaker 1: I will likely run into my old comrade, Eddie Garcia.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Eddie's gonna be wearing a jersey

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna ask how does that work for him?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll find out tonight.

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Speaker 3: He is at the one time of the year he

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Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm leaving goodbye. Yeah, I don't. It's

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Speaker 1: weird because Eddie he usually goes in tailgates with the

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the rules. And I

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Speaker 1: got my rams play the forty nine Ers today.

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Speaker 3: We got that.

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Speaker 1: I'm the game I'm most looking for. I guess the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Ravens Vikings should be good to Ravens have

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Speaker 1: who work in progress and all that. And then tomorrow though,

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Speaker 1: on Monday, that'll be a good one, the Eagles and

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Speaker 1: the Packers. But that's not the day. That's tomorrow we

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Speaker 1: celebrate go to an art museum Day. Could you have

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Speaker 1: help me out a little bit. It's all right, thank

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Speaker 1: you for that. These are actual questions by actual listeners

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Speaker 1: And I do see some new names here, which is good.

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Speaker 1: We want new people, we love the old people. I

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Speaker 1: One is from Manny from La. He says, this is

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Speaker 1: for Danny g He says, Danny, are the Raiders okay?

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Speaker 1: Now that they've fired their special teams coach? That seems

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Speaker 1: like a cheap shot from Manny Danny. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: was done. Once that happened, I'm like, well, Ashton, gents,

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Speaker 3: he's not gonna have any more good runs. They're not

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Speaker 3: Smith is not good when he is pressured. You know

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Speaker 3: If you could pressure Geno Smith, you're gonna win the game.

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Speaker 3: And the Raiders O line is hurt. It wasn't great

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Speaker 1: Well the thing too though, This always annoys me because

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Speaker 1: not the Raiders' offensive line. The problem is he doesn't

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Speaker 1: Superpower if you have a quarterback that can avoid sacks.

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Speaker 1: But you can adjust the offense if the offensive line

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a sitting I obviously people say every

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Speaker 1: just defend the fat guys. No. No, I've heard this

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Speaker 1: had a coach laid this out to me years ago

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Speaker 1: about how if you're getting pressured adjust the offense, you

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Speaker 1: you can make quick decisions. Gino Smith has not ever

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Speaker 1: we're doing way too much sports Stuffdanny. But Caleb Williams,

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Speaker 1: I blame Manny. It's your fault, Manny schmuck. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: That's why I said, if you can pressure Gino Smith,

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Speaker 1: Well, the thing too about the game, not to go

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Speaker 3: Ye a. After all that and a couple of roughing

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Speaker 3: been this year. The special teams has been horrible. For

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Speaker 3: and that's why that special teams coach got fired.

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Speaker 1: Fired yeah, you know he's he's gone. And I do

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Speaker 1: like the strategy. It's really a bold move. But by

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and remember I said that Gino's the kind of

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Speaker 3: actually throw. He was throwing to Locket, who's been on

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Speaker 3: the team for what eight days? Bro you got one

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Speaker 1: He's like, I remember him from Seattle. He used to

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Speaker 3: I know this guy. I've seen enough. Geno Smith. Please

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Speaker 3: give him the hook.

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Speaker 1: All right? Give him you give him the bag. Fer

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Speaker 1: dog in Fullerton says, Happy Turkey Month, Ben and Danny, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Ben and Dang, Happy Turkey Month, he says. Are you

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Speaker 1: tired of all the winning yet? Between the Dodgers, multiple

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Speaker 1: and the Clippers' final four appearances, LA has had like fifty.

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Speaker 3: Victory what's wrong with your Clippers?

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Speaker 1: Have either of you gone to any of these parades?

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Speaker 1: I have not. I last time I went to a

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Speaker 1: It was during the Kobe Shack years. And the only

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Speaker 1: Hand to God, Danny at AM eleven to fifty one,

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Speaker 1: we had live parade coverage of the Laker Championship parade

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Speaker 3: It was you were, well, this is so long ago, Danny.

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Speaker 1: and they were gonna have a They had a rally.

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Speaker 1: This was the rally where Mark Mattson danced like a

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Speaker 1: And then so anyway, the crowd was all assembled at

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Speaker 1: They didn't have enough water, they didn't have enough bad

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Speaker 1: the last time, Daddy. Did you take off from work

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Speaker 3: No, I don't go to parades. I have a job.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: People that go to No, I mean, look, they must

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Speaker 3: work that day. But I mean, it's our job to

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Speaker 1: Yes, I completely agree in any people. When I see

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Speaker 1: And I guess he's fish head, horsehead, same thing.

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Speaker 3: What a dunce, What a dunce.

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Speaker 1: But he's a hell of a wide receiver. Hell not

433
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 1: for your Raiders, but a hell of a wide receiver.

434
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 1: Remember the helmet thing too, Oh my god, the helmet stuff.

435
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: I didn't even mention the helmet stuff in. The helmet

436
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: stuff was amazing, absolutely amazing. He held out he refused

437
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,560
Speaker 1: to show up. That was with the Raiders, right, refused

438
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Speaker 1: to show up to the training camp. Yeah, because the

439
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,840
Speaker 1: NFL would not allow him to wear his helmet because

440
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Speaker 1: it was too old, it wasn't safe. And so then

441
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: he tried to paint over his helmet hoping no one

442
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Speaker 1: would notice.

443
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Speaker 3: And it's weird because if you want to talk brain health,

444
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 3: I mean, he's the poster boy for that. He's never

445
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 3: had a concussion his entire career.

446
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 1: People say the Vontez Perfect kid, You remember that one

447
00:22:59,400 --> 00:22:59,679
Speaker 1: that was.

448
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 3: The bro people Ben people literally say that he completely

449
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 3: turned into this character he is now that we know

450
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Speaker 3: him as after that one hit from Perfect.

451
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Speaker 1: It's a shame, man, Is it entertaining? Throwing stuff off

452
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: buildings and just just wild, just absolutely wild, all right,

453
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Speaker 1: JT the Wingman, our buddy from the Knoxville area. Right so,

454
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Speaker 1: and he says, Hey, Ben and Danny g I have

455
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Speaker 1: waited all year for the Ohio meet and greet and

456
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 1: it did not happen this year. He said, Dick in

457
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,639
Speaker 1: Dayton is likely unlimited time. I hope you can get

458
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Speaker 1: out there soon.

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Speaker 3: I will.

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Speaker 1: We'll be doing that. It is on my to do list.

461
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: Once we get past the holidays and all that the

462
00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: weather gets a little better, JT. I plan on resuming

463
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: my travels and likely after football season, will make our

464
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: way to Ohio. I told my presence will be needed

465
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: back in North Carolina, so maybe we'll do another North

466
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: Carolina meet and greet. We'll figure that one out, he says.

467
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,640
Speaker 1: As for the mailbag, since I am about to move

468
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,640
Speaker 1: to a new place here in Tennessee, that checks off

469
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 1: many things on my checklist of wants for a home.

470
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Speaker 1: What was the most important thing on the checklist when

471
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Speaker 1: you chose your current residence, he says, for me, it

472
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: was two things, a fireplace and a mountain view. Just wondering.

473
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 1: That's from JT the Wingman. So Danny, When you're looking

474
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Speaker 1: for a humble abode, what are you looking for? I

475
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Speaker 1: genuinely don't care very much about the view. And the

476
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Speaker 1: reason I don't care about the view is because once

477
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 1: you live in a place for a certain amount of time,

478
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,359
Speaker 1: you stop looking. It just becomes background and stuff. Like

479
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,160
Speaker 1: when you first move into a place where the great

480
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 1: view it's amazing. It's kind of like when I go

481
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Speaker 1: to Vegas times and I'll get the Presidential suite because

482
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Speaker 1: they'll upgrade me very rarely, and you have that view

483
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Speaker 1: of the strip of Las Vegas and all the lights,

484
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh man, that's awesome. But if you

485
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Speaker 1: were there every day, you know, it's it's like part

486
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: part of the blinds. You don't you don't even notice it.

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Speaker 3: The number one thing I look for is a neighbor

488
00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 3: close by that has barking dogs. Yeah, it's almost like

489
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 3: comfortable white noise. You never get peace of mind. It's

490
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 3: just really comfortable.

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00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like that sounds like Luigi, my old dog, Luigi.

492
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: That arking non stop. It was just a nightmare. No,

493
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Speaker 1: what do I look for? I look you spend most

494
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Speaker 1: of your time inside, so I look for like a

495
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Speaker 1: nice bath tub. I take a bath at least once

496
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Speaker 1: a week. I should do it more, but I don't

497
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 1: have left time. So I like that and just want

498
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Speaker 1: to have enough space where everything kind of flows together.

499
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Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's any specific thing. I

500
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: don't really You know, California, you don't need a fireplace.

501
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 1: We have a fireplace. We don't really use it much.

502
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: You want have a little bit of an outside space,

503
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Speaker 1: but not too much of an outside space. So there's

504
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: that that sweet spot. But congratulations, Jat. I look forward

505
00:25:58,560 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: to seeing you at the next smell of meat and

506
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: green whenever, that is, if it is geographically desirable for you,

507
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: as you have traveled all over to different meet and

508
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: greets over the last couple of years. Scott from Florida writes,

509
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: and he says, hey, Ben, former North Carolina State basketball

510
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: player Charles Shackelford said he was amphibious. Amphibious because he

511
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: could shoot both right and left handed. What is the

512
00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: dumbest thing you or your producers have ever said on

513
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: your show. I don't believe microwaving tinfoil requires audible words,

514
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: so that cannot be the answer. Scott. Normally, what happens

515
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: is these things are fun stories for a couple of days,

516
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,119
Speaker 1: and then we we forget about them and move on.

517
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 1: I've had I don't know if there are actual words.

518
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: The things that have been amazing to me are the

519
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: user error on the show. I've had board ops that

520
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: have gone to break and left our mics on, not

521
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: telling us our mics were on, and then we conversation

522
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: was getting on the air. I've had I had on

523
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 1: one engineer that didn't know how to play the commercials,

524
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,160
Speaker 1: so we had to do an hour of network radio

525
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: commercial free. But I mean, those aren't really stupid things

526
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: being said. That's like this just user error, and there's

527
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff I just off the top of

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00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: my head, anything Danny, that you remember any stupid stuff

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Speaker 1: you would like to share with the class.

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Speaker 3: I remember you telling me on the air that the

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00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 3: Clippers would get to and win an NBA Finals before

532
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 3: Lebron ever even sniffed the playoff series with the Lakers.

533
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 3: I remember that.

534
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: Well, that's I'm glad you brought that up. I'm validated.

535
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: The Lakers haven't won a championship, so that's it all right.

536
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: You know that you and you're done with done with

537
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 1: Lebron're done.

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00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 3: With Wait wait, wait, so you say that the MLB

539
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 3: title the year of COVID is the hardest one in

540
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 3: baseball history, but the NBA one is the easiest. That

541
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:54,880
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense.

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00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: Do I have to repeat this again again? It was

543
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: fundamentally harder and baaseball and fundamentally easier in basketball. Why

544
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: is this hard for people to understand?

545
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 3: Because it just fits your narrative. That's why it's not

546
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: about my narrative. Yes it is.

547
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: It's not about if.

548
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 3: The Clips not so you'd be saying the same thing

549
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 3: if the Clippers had finally made it past the first

550
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: round of the playoffs and got to the finals and

551
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 3: won and had a trophy in their case, you would

552
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 3: say the same thing you're about to say right now.

553
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: Now, listen, it's not my opinion. It's other people who

554
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: are in the business that agree. It's a mickey mouse situation.

555
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: That's when do you pay attention to what others? Since

556
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: when do you care what other people in the business say?

557
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,239
Speaker 1: And they agree with me, I pay attention to them.

558
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: That's the way it works. When somebody agrees with me,

559
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, we're good to go. That that whole

560
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: COVID championship thing was bogus. In basketball during the pandemic,

561
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: every man, woman and child knows that baseball was harder.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this seriously. Do you think the

563
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 3: Lakers and Lebron would have to agree to it because

564
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 3: he's got the no trade clause? Do you think they

565
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 3: should move on because the team they have in place

566
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: seems to be having great chemistry?

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Speaker 1: I would I would get if I owned the Lake. Yeah,

568
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: I would get rid of Lebron. I would. I'd send

569
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Speaker 1: him to the Knicks or somewhere else and let him.

570
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to play for the Necks.

571
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: Just don't send him the Clippers. As long as you

572
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: don't send him the Clippers.

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00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that would be that. I would title

574
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 3: that monologue beautiful karma.

575
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: No, no, we have enough old guys that don't want

576
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: to play basketball. We don't need any more old guys

577
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: that don't want to play basketball. My god, the Clippers

578
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: are they trying? What is Steve Balmer doing?

579
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 2: Like?

580
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: Are they tanking? They don't have a first round pick?

581
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: What exactly are they trying to do? Here? My god?

582
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 3: I feel like you guys put all these pinball parts

583
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 3: together and shake them up and hope that, you know,

584
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 3: it builds a beautiful pinball machine. But I don't know, dude,

585
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 3: you have like bug parts on your team right now.

586
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: I haven't watched too much, but when I tried to

587
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: watch like five minutes of the game they played the

588
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: Suns this week, I was at a standalone NB Island

589
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: game on NBC.

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00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 3: Oh, I watched it.

591
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: God, was that bad. Third They just didn't show. I

592
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: wonder they did at halftime. They must have gone out

593
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: for snacks or something like that. All right, last for

594
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: their all right, you picked? I got two. I got

595
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: one about social media and then one about a book.

596
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: Which one do you want? Danny? You picked?

597
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 3: You know books are underrated? On the Fifth Hour podcast,

598
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 3: right this one from Eric?

599
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: He says, Ben and Danny, are you guys going to

600
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Speaker 1: pour one out for the Farmer's Almanac this weekend? It

601
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 1: turns out, Danny that the Farmers this is called Eric

602
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: the first Farmer's Almanac, which was published in eighteen eighteen.

603
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: They will stop publishing after the twenty twenty sixth edition

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00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,239
Speaker 1: after more than two centuries. The Farmers Almanac, which has

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00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: given people weather long term weather forecast predictions and farming

606
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: tips and American folklore. Very folks. The advice they are

607
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: going out of business. Yeah. The organization behind it, Eric Simpton,

608
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: store here out of Maine, said it was a very

609
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: tough decision, said that the publishing industry has led to

610
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 1: insurmountable financial challenges.

611
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 3: Man, this is like radio. Back in the day. There

612
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 3: used to be two things, like syndicated things that ran

613
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 3: on our FM radio station. The Paul Harvey Minute was

614
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: it called it was something good day? Yeah, it was

615
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: like the Paul Harvey Special and then you.

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00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: You don't know what the news is and now you're

617
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: about to hear the rest of the story.

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00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 3: The other being the farm Report. It was like a

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Speaker 3: weather update, but it was like updating all things farming.

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00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because this was a radio station in Stockton, California

622
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, and so of course they

623
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Speaker 3: had to update everything. Calmneure.

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Speaker 1: So the question is will the Farmers Almanac continue online

625
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 1: or are they just gonna it's gotta continue online. That

626
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: didn't cost much money, right, compared to the book thing.

627
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: You just get it all online. You don't make any

628
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: money doing that though, right, that's the problem. I guess

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00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to buy the last Farmer's Almanac. Is

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Speaker 1: it gonna be like a rock band, Danny, where they say, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, psych, we're coming back, you know, that

632
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: last tour, and.

633
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 3: Then they come back and you know here, I thought

634
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 3: Yamamoto's one of one trading card from Tops was the

635
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: big story that. Little did I know it's the Farmer's Almanac.

636
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 3: I need to get ahold of.

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00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: I know, right, good stocking stuff. All right, we'll get

638
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: out of that. Enjoy the football today. I will be back,

639
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: God willing behind the microphones of Fox Sports Radio tonight

640
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: to bloviate the night away, talk about all the big

641
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: storylines in the NFL. And you'll be back, I assumed,

642
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: Danny Covino and Rich Yes.

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Speaker 3: Monday afternoon, Yeah, yeay, Monday through Friday two to four

644
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 3: pm on the West side. That's five to seven pm

645
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 3: in beautiful Springfield, old Massachusetts.

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Speaker 1: All right, well, where my grandfather lived years ago. I

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Speaker 1: have a great wonderful Sunday later, Skater gotta murder, I

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Speaker 1: gotta go