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

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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants

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

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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the

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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.

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Speaker 3: Wow, the Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.

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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.

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Speaker 4: In the air everyway, The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben

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Speaker 4: Mahler and Danny g Radio on assignment. He'll be back

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Speaker 4: later this weekend. It is the twenty seventh day of December.

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Speaker 4: National Fruitcake Day today, so celebrate appropriately. Shouldn't that have

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Speaker 4: been before the Christmas holiday? Yeah, it's National Fruitcake Day.

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Speaker 4: I've never met anyone my entire life that likes fruitcake.

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Speaker 4: I don't know any one that enjoys it. But yet

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Speaker 4: it goes back to like five hundred BC. It's very bizarre.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, on this edition of The Fifth Hour, we've

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Speaker 4: got the home stretch, the PSA, the laughing gas, and

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Speaker 4: we'll also toss in the Idiom of.

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Speaker 1: The week, the Idiom of the Week.

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Speaker 4: But we begin with a reminder, despite this being that

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Speaker 4: dead zone between the Christmas holiday and New Year's Honik

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Speaker 4: is still going on. Happy Honkah, So if you celebrate,

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Speaker 4: if not, just have a good day. So with all

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Speaker 4: that happen, With all that happening, we are in the

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Speaker 4: home stretch of the NFL season. It started back on

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Speaker 4: Christmas with the Netflix situation on Christmas Day, a game

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Speaker 4: last night in Chicago, and it continues tomorrow, NFL on Saturday,

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Speaker 4: also NFL on Sunday. But we're in the middle of

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Speaker 4: week seventeen of the NFL season, which means that starting

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Speaker 4: last night and then airing later today is a brand

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Speaker 4: new episode of the Mellow drama that is Benny Versus

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Speaker 4: the Penny, Benny Versus the Penny. We'll have the pregame

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Speaker 4: show in Boston. That is the flagship of Benny Versus

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Speaker 4: produced out of NBC Sports Boston, so it'll be on

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Speaker 4: prior to the Celtics Pacers game Tonight.

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Speaker 1: We'll go live on tape, Live on tape.

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Speaker 4: On NBC Sports Boston at six pm and then encore

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Speaker 4: showings after the Celtics postgame show, we'll be on at

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Speaker 4: eleven thirty pm and then for my night Owls twelve

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Speaker 4: thirty am, a little late night after Celtics basketball, and

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Speaker 4: airing all weekend all weekend on various NBC sports affiliates

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Speaker 4: around the country. Will be on in La on the

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Speaker 4: Lakers cable home starting tomorrow, and later on today there

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Speaker 4: should be, assuming I hit the rate button here, another

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Speaker 4: one of those behind the scenes videos. I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 4: we have had so much fun meandering around the back

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. And this week, since it's.

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Speaker 4: The Christmas holiday and all that, not too much going on,

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Speaker 4: Year's But there'll be a video up later today promoting

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Speaker 4: Benny Versus the Penny, and you'll enjoy that.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully, maybe not. I don't know. I get mixed reviews.

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Speaker 4: Last week we had Back to the Future, which I

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Speaker 1: But Benny Versus the Penny all weekend long. Check it out.

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Speaker 4: Please tell a friend. It's on Peacock. If you don't

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Speaker 4: have cable television, it's on the streaming on Peacock.

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Speaker 4: So depending on when you watch Benny Versus the Penny,

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Speaker 4: Now turning the page on that a yearly public service announcement.

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Speaker 4: like gifts, stockings, family dinner, Santa Claus, reindeer, you know

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Speaker 4: after years and years of research, I've determined here's some

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Speaker 4: Year's sporting resolutions. For example, if you're a beaten and

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Speaker 1: A great, weird weekend. It's that weird time.

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Speaker 4: It's like it's not a holiday this weekend, but it

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Speaker 4: Year's it's a dead period and we have Honick. You

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Speaker 4: On the fifth Hour's Danny Say, Danny g said later

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