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Speaker 1: new edition of The Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and

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Speaker 1: this is kind of interesting because there's so many on

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Speaker 1: the college football triple One that I said it was

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Speaker 1: And that was Clemson. Um, Clemson was you know, a

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Speaker 1: They weren't known nationally, but a great place to go.

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Speaker 1: They always spell down the prior to the game. That

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Speaker 1: was my that was my sleeper. Stop. Now there's all

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Speaker 1: the other ones. I mean, my goodness, we mentioned l

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Speaker 1: s U. Let me tell you something that and rouge

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday night. Don't getting better? And uh I

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Speaker 1: missed an over dame when NBC got the contract and

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Speaker 1: the way they went. But there's so many to go. Uh,

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Speaker 1: my friend, I've got time for one more question. My

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Speaker 1: wife has staying on it right now. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to take away

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Speaker 1: from that. And I appreciate your time very much here, Brent,

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Speaker 1: but we'll we'll get you out on this one. Brent.

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Speaker 1: Here the catch phrases right here. You're so many There

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Speaker 1: was a Brent Mussburger drinking game a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: How did those originate? You're looking live and all the others?

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Speaker 1: You pick that in origin? It's a looking live. Bob

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Speaker 1: Fisherman was the original director of the NFL today. His

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Speaker 1: father gambled on football, and so when you gamble on football,

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Speaker 1: you obviously know other gambles. It's it's it's a social

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Speaker 1: activity other people realize social gambling on sports really is.

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Speaker 1: So Bob's father had a friend who lost the game

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Speaker 1: and he blamed it on the fact that he didn't

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Speaker 1: know the weather. He said to Mr Fishman, is there

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Speaker 1: a way? Is there a way that I can show

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Speaker 1: me the pictures so I know what the weather is

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday at the NFL. So Bob jokingly mentioned

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Speaker 1: that the meeting was producer Mike Purl, myself were the

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Speaker 1: three of us. We laughed and um we sat. I thought, well, listen,

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Speaker 1: what about a live shot of a stadium? So we

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Speaker 1: did it. I said, well, here's what will do pop,

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Speaker 1: I said, let me just say you are looking live. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's try it. So we tried it on one stadium

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Speaker 1: that first week, and then the next week box up front.

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Speaker 1: What if I gave you three stadiums in succession where

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Speaker 1: we're going? And I said, you mean you can meet

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Speaker 1: Texas and the Rams were still in the College sum

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Speaker 1: alongst Yeah, I said, I can do that. I said, okay,

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Speaker 1: I said, I'll use you are looking live on all

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Speaker 1: of them. But you gotta you gotta do one thing

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Speaker 1: for me, Bob, And he said, what's that print? I said,

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Speaker 1: don't roll. And the tape it's gotta be alive if

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it all laugh. And that's how it

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Speaker 1: came to be my friend. You are lucky live. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go all think you'll take care. Okay, Thank

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Speaker 1: you a lot,