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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 in

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Speaker 1: Welcome in.

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Speaker 3: It is the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny

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Speaker 3: g in the Audio Dojo. Because four hours a night

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Speaker 3: are not enough, so we do audio content eight days

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Speaker 3: a week here from the secret podcast studio somewhere deep

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Speaker 3: in the north Woods. Now I should point out that

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Speaker 3: while you have found this show, and you have downloaded

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Speaker 3: of course, of the Overnight Show. But we are available

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Speaker 3: all over the place, the vast power of the iHeart

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Speaker 3: Broadcast Company, the global reach of podcasting and all that,

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Speaker 3: and this weekend's going to be slightly different. Now, how

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Speaker 3: is this weekend going to be slightly different? I'll explain

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Speaker 3: so normally I do do the show with Danny G.

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Speaker 3: But my man, Danny G is on Daddy G duty

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Speaker 3: as he is awaiting the pending arrival of his son.

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Speaker 3: We're very excited about that. We've talked about it a

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Speaker 3: So this weekend today we have what I think is

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Speaker 3: a fascinating conversation. I hope it turns out to be

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Speaker 3: of that ultimately about some new technology. Will tell you

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Speaker 3: about that involving the NFL and sports and world, you know,

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Speaker 3: tomorrow's podcast in the Sunday podcast, my man, we were

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Speaker 3: very lucky to get this guy because everyone wants him.

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Speaker 3: All the networks want this guy. His name is Alex

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Speaker 3: the Vegan. We call him Alex the Vegan. That's actually

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Speaker 3: not his legal name, but Alex one of the great

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Speaker 3: gonna be a good time with him this weekend and

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Speaker 3: So I saw this viral video at the beginning of

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Speaker 3: this company. The company, by the way, is called turf Tank.

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Speaker 3: That's the name of the company, and they've been around

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Speaker 3: Ryan is a vice president, does some marketing, some sales

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Speaker 3: I'm not against the technology now. I am against technology

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Speaker 1: Ryan, welcome.

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Speaker 3: Ben Mallar podcast. And so the first thing I think

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question, Ben. First off, I wanted

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Speaker 4: So basically what will happen is is our customers will

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Speaker 4: they'll set up the equipment, so they'll set up this

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Speaker 3: You guys have been around for a couple of years, right,

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Speaker 3: How did this affect businesses? I mean, so I saw it.

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Speaker 4: seeing a video like you did or a picture. So

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Speaker 4: please get a hold of us. We'd love to come

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Speaker 4: out and paint a field for you.

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Speaker 3: And as you said, Ron, not just you know, obviously

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Speaker 3: you deal in the United States, but you guys are

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Speaker 3: a global company, right You got people all over the place,

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Speaker 3: not just here, all.

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Speaker 4: Over absolutely absolutely, So we've got operations right now in

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Speaker 4: the UK, Denmark obviously, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, France, and Canada

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Speaker 4: is kicking off for US as well.

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Speaker 1: Very cool, All right, hey Ryan, thank you for doing so.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate this.

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Speaker 3: Fascinated by the technology, very cool to see it on

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Speaker 3: a football field, and I can't wait to see what

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Speaker 3: you guys come up with next.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for doing I appreciate Ryan.

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Speaker 4: Awesome, thanks man. Appreciate the opportunity