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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 sol fashion of fairness. He

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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's clearinghouse of

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Speaker 2: hot takes. Break free for something special. The Fifth Hour

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Speaker 2: with Ben Mahller starts right now.

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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.

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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio.

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Speaker 3: A Happy Saturday. Oh what a day it is today?

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Speaker 3: Holy can only a.

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Speaker 1: Big cottage football day? It is championship Saturday. You already

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Speaker 3: Am I excited to watch the Conference USA championship game

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Speaker 3: in Jacksonville, Alabama between in Jacksonville State and Kennesaw State. No,

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Speaker 3: there's two games that I have circled today and can

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Speaker 3: you guess which two games I have circle? Now you

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Speaker 3: might be hearing this podcast after these games have been played,

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Speaker 3: So take this for what it's worth. But Alabama and

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Speaker 3: And that's in Atlanta, the SEC Championship game, which is

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Speaker 3: And then the Granddaddy of them all from Lucas Oil

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Speaker 1: It's like a home game Indiana.

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Speaker 3: That's a basketball school in Ohio State, the Big Bad

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Speaker 3: And that is the game that I have circled along

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Speaker 3: And the cool thing about it is that I don't

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Speaker 3: A little bit later, both games and see what happens

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Speaker 3: on this podcast we have when the Malarism bites back

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Speaker 3: and the Great bag Shakedown. Yes, all right, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: begin with this, so uh, you know, I want to

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Speaker 3: this podcast over the last couple of months has just

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Speaker 3: become a weekly update on me injuring myself. It's just

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Speaker 3: are people in the world who trained for marathons. I

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Speaker 3: the silverware drawer in your kitchen. So this past week

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Speaker 3: One of them that I use when a washed up play,

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Speaker 3: And it all comes back to one phrase, don't catch

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Speaker 3: Remember she was sprinting through the airport clutching all of

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Speaker 3: Why am I glutting for punishment? Probably so, probably so,

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Speaker 3: This is the California paradox. It is a beautiful state,

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Speaker 3: Well, well, just it's like when I go to a

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Speaker 3: Well, because it's quiet, efficient, invisible, like any real environmental

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Speaker 1: But that's not what California does.

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Speaker 3: California insists on the public shaming business model. A ding

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Speaker 3: You solved absolutely nothing. And you are charging your residence

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Speaker 3: They believe that charging you a dime at checkout is

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: Oh but Ben, it's just ten cents, And that, my friends,

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Speaker 3: It starts out with the dime. Well that's not working.

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Speaker 3: Once these things come in, they're not going anywhere in

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Speaker 3: the grand opera of government overreach. The bag fee is

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Speaker 1: So I don't know why there's a watermelon. My wife

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Speaker 3: Like a circus act performed in the parking lot at

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Speaker 1: Or Trader Joe's or Vaughn's.

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Speaker 3: These are the markets we have out here, and people stare,

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Speaker 3: a Taurus. I am stubborn. The astrology insider knows that

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna break.

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Speaker 3: I won't buy the bag knocking to do that, because

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Speaker 3: your unwashed, bare hands, standing tall and declaring that the

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Speaker 3: bureaucratic bag barons, these idiots can go away, no thanks.

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Speaker 1: I brought my own, Yes I did.

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Speaker 3: I brought my own, or I didn't bring any, and

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to carry that stuff out.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes I have been told that.

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Speaker 3: They always asked you want bags, and sometimes I'll say no,

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Speaker 3: and they don't hear me because I talk kind of

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Speaker 3: a bag and I don't want the bag. Well, the

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Speaker 3: food's already in the bag. And every once in a

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Speaker 3: while they'll give me a freebie. It's like a drug

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Speaker 3: peddler giving out free samples to try to hook you on.

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Speaker 3: And I have not even though I've been given bags.

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Speaker 3: I didn't pay for the bag. They didn't add the

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Speaker 3: ten cent sale charge or surcharge on that didn't do it.

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Speaker 3: Didn't do it, and that's it. And so I always say,

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Speaker 3: I know I'm good. I don't need the bag. If

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Speaker 3: they give me the bag, I might take it. And

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Speaker 3: that is how you fight the bag tax tyranny. You

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Speaker 3: have to go old school Hollywood, like Charlie Chaplin walking

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Speaker 3: carrying a bunch of junk, or Steve Martin stumbling, or

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Speaker 3: Catherine O'Hara sprinting through the airport. The silent majority will

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Speaker 3: rise again, I'm telling you, and they will carry their

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Speaker 3: groceries free of charge, free of charge until then.

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Speaker 1: And I say hell Aelujah, hallelujah.

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Speaker 3: That's what I say. I enjoy the college football today.

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Speaker 3: If you've already watched the college football or you're like

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Speaker 3: Lucky Tony who will be listening to this sometime in

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Speaker 3: twenty thirty three, have it just a wonderful day. May

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Speaker 3: all your bets be winning ones. Make sure to watch

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Speaker 3: any versus the Penny. Still time to watch the Sunday

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Speaker 3: Extravaganza on YouTube.

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Speaker 1: Great audience last week.

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Speaker 3: We thank you guys for watching on demand, and we'll

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Speaker 3: catch you on the next edition.

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Speaker 1: At the mail Bag, the mail Bag edition of the

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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour. We'll talk to you then by flation