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Speaker 1: remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness.

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Speaker 1: clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. The

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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the

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Speaker 1: air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny

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Speaker 1: g Radio is back in your audio device, and we

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Speaker 1: thank you for finding the podcast the global reach of podcasting,

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Speaker 1: because four hours a night on the overnight not enough

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Speaker 1: for me. And Danny's got his hands full with Covino

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Speaker 1: and Rich, but he has more time, more hot takes

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Speaker 1: to provide, even on a Saturday, Danny, even on a Saturday. Yeah, Man,

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Speaker 1: they're all gone. They've killed the knuckleball pitcher. The nerds

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Speaker 1: have killed the knuckleball pitcher. That used to be the

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Speaker 1: thing when I was a kid. And if you were

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Speaker 1: a pitcher that was kind of a tweener. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: make it in the major leagues, but you had some ability.

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Speaker 1: You were kind of in between. They called them a

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Speaker 1: four A player, where you were better than triple A,

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Speaker 1: but you weren't good enough for the major leagues. The

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Speaker 1: two tricks, you remember, the two tricks they would do.

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Speaker 1: The one of them was the knuckleball. The other one

433
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Speaker 1: was they would try to have you throw like either

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Speaker 1: underhand or sidearm oh side arm yeah, yeah, yeah, try

435
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Speaker 1: to make you a sidewinder. And I don't even know

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Speaker 1: that they do that much anymore. Yeah. I was gonna say,

437
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Speaker 1: are there even any sidewinders left? There's no more Dennis

438
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Speaker 1: Eckersley's yeah, or even There was a guy named Mark

439
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Speaker 1: Korn Do you remember him? Pitched in the eighties. There

440
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Speaker 1: were a few guys like that in the in the

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Speaker 1: eighties and nineties. Yeah, one of the great closers of

442
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Speaker 1: that year for the Royals, This guy named Dan Quisenberry.

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard that name in years. Holy shit. I

444
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Speaker 1: actually heard his name a couple weeks ago because we

445
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Speaker 1: did a story and I don't know that we mentioned

446
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Speaker 1: it on this podcast, but there was a story that

447
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: they had determined a bunch of baseball players in the

448
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties died from brain cancer, right, a bunch of

449
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Philly players died of brain cancer, and they were

450
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what had happened. Like there was

451
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Speaker 1: this pack of Philly players played the eighties and the nineties,

452
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Speaker 1: and they determined the reporter in Philly for the newspaper

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Speaker 1: that the Inquirer. I think it was they got a

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Speaker 1: sample of the turf from Veteran Stadium. They sent it

455
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Speaker 1: to a lab and they determined that the AstroTurf of

456
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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties had all these chemicals. It was like

457
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: the AstroTurf equivalent of asbestos. Yeah, but it gets even

458
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: stranger than that, Danny. It only happened to the baseball players.

459
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Speaker 1: It didn't happen to the football players. So they were like, well,

460
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: wait a minute. The Eagles played there, and nobody on

461
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: the Eagles suffered from this. Why is it only a

462
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Speaker 1: baseball And so they determined that it had to be

463
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Speaker 1: a really hot day and if if it was really

464
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Speaker 1: hot in the summer, the chemicals would be released from

465
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Speaker 1: the AstroTurf. Yeah. And when they say not to drink

466
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Speaker 1: from a water bottle, plastic water bottle when it's been

467
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Speaker 1: in the hot sun because the heat can release chemicals, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And I talked to my friend Bob Fesco in Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: He pointed out the Royals in the nineteen eighties, who

470
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Speaker 1: used to have really good teams. They had their manager

471
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Speaker 1: Dick Howser and Dan Quissenberry both died of cancer, and

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Speaker 1: they think they don't know for sure, but they think

473
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Speaker 1: it's the same thing. They used the same There was

474
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Speaker 1: one company that made the AstroTurf back in those days,

475
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Speaker 1: and they think that's the same thing that happened. Is

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Speaker 1: really hot in Kansas City. I don't know if anybody

477
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Speaker 1: in the Saint Louis Cardinals. He gets hot in Saint Louis, Cincinnati,

478
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: places like that, but pretty wild. Backscratcher, backscratcher. Did we

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Speaker 1: get any reviews this week? Danny? Did we get zero, one,

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Speaker 1: two or four? That's quite the range. Yeah, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say two, Danny, come on down. The price is right,

482
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Speaker 1: you win, yeah, yeah, well you win the chance to

483
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Speaker 1: hear me read the reviews, and you know these are

484
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Speaker 1: very serious reviews. This one comes from DJ Hung Well Hung, well,

485
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: what's up? Yeah? Yeah, my favorite DJ, the man enjoy Me. Yeah,

486
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: he's a DJ on one of the porn sites. Anyway.

487
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Speaker 1: He says he heard me on Zabe. He says, get

488
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Speaker 1: Zabe on the fifth hour. I loved the crossover. Yeah,

489
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 1: so Steve Zaban before you were at Fox Sports Radio, Danny,

490
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: he was our morning guy. Okay, And this goes back

491
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Speaker 1: probably thirteen years or so, and we're radio friends. And

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Speaker 1: Zabe is a big radio star in Milwaukee, and he's

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Speaker 1: done a lot of stuff in Washington, d C. And

494
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Speaker 1: he goes back and forth between those cities and he's

495
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Speaker 1: been a long time morning guy and radio guy. And

496
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Speaker 1: so he has his own podcast which is a spinoff

497
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Speaker 1: of his morning show in Milwaukee, and it's called the Zabecast.

498
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Speaker 1: And he didn't he didn't invited me on, and the

499
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Speaker 1: schedule didn't really work out. We finally logistically worked everything out,

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Speaker 1: so I did make a rare and appropriate appearance on

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Speaker 1: the Zabecast. Had a blast. It's a lot of fun

502
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: telling old stories with Steve and talking about some of

503
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: the stuff so and Zabe said he's willing to do

504
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: it to come on our show. So I do have

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Speaker 1: to answer DJ Hungwell, I'm sure that's his real name.

506
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Speaker 1: I will, Yeah, I will reach out to one of

507
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Speaker 1: Zab's burner names. Yeah, that's true. That's a good point.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Backscratcher. You scratch our back, We'll

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Speaker 1: scratch your back. And this is on the Apple podcast page.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the description of the podcast on

511
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Speaker 1: the main podcast page you're looking at on your device,

512
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Speaker 1: It's very simple, and this is the thing that management checks,

513
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Speaker 1: so it's a simple way. All you have to do

514
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Speaker 1: is spend a couple of minutes filling out a quick review.

515
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Speaker 1: And can you can even put a silly name in there,

516
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Speaker 1: like DJ Hung, Well, it doesn't matter and that helps

517
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Speaker 1: us out. Flagstaff Mike writes in he says five year

518
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Speaker 1: teas the headline what wonderful shows. I listen to every

519
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Speaker 1: podcast of the Ben Mallow Show in the fifth hour

520
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: along with Danny g I have to because I'm waiting

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Speaker 1: for Ben to finish a five year tease about Darryl

522
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: Strawberry's reaction to La being surrounded by fire. He says,

523
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Speaker 1: I happen to see that interview live. Very funny. That's

524
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: from Flagstaff, Mike. Will you just keep listening, Mike, and

525
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: at some point, at some point, we will make your

526
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: dreams come true. Man, Now that is a professional radio tease. Yeah,

527
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: just five years. You gotta leave it. You gotta leave

528
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: them hanging a little bits. What you gotta do? All right,

529
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Speaker 1: pop goes the culture A little time for popcos of

530
00:31:55,880 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: the culture, and that means Ohio owl All right, thanks

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Speaker 1: Ohio al. And what do you know about Beethoven. You

532
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: know anything about Beethoven? Yeah, I saw that movie back

533
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: in the day when we were little kids. Earth We're

534
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: looking dog Beethoven, the the other Beethoven. Uh. It turns

535
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,719
Speaker 1: out they for some reason went back and analyzed Beethoven's DNA,

536
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,200
Speaker 1: the first ever analysis of Beethoven's DNA, and they have

537
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: answered the mystery of how Beethoven died. See this, You

538
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Speaker 1: want to take a guess what caused bee Beethoven, the

539
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: legendary musician, all these years later that here we are

540
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: and we're still talking about Beethoven. We talk about music,

541
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Speaker 1: the Spanish flu. Uh yeah, No, So scientist had deciphered

542
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: from Beethoven's genome from locks of his hair that he

543
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: drank himself to death. Oh yeah, I should have thought

544
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: of it. He is a musician, after all, the legendary

545
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: composer had liver disease and hepatitis B, which were made

546
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: worse by his heavy boozing. So Beethoven was an alcoholic,

547
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: a functioning alcoholic who knew. And it's like if Paul

548
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: and Rhode Island could compose music, if he could compose

549
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: a phone call, that would be nice. Also, right, that

550
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: would be solid well, here's something that's right out of

551
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: a Star Wars or Star Trek type film. An alien

552
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: mothership lurking in our Solar system could be watching us

553
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: with tiny probes, according to what science fiction magazine? How

554
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: about a Pentagon official. Ooh, a Pentagon official say what? Yeah? Yeah,

555
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: a draft paper by a Harvard scientist had the head

556
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: of the Pentagon's UFO office has has raised the idea

557
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: of an alien mothership that could be in the Solar

558
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: system right now, sending out tiny probes dubbed dandelion seeds

559
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: to explore the planets. Went in, how about that? You

560
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,320
Speaker 1: think you think this is something? And you think this

561
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: guy just did like ayahuasca with Aaron Rodgers and Joe Rogan.

562
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: I don't know that's quite the story to make up

563
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: out of thin air. Yeah, this comes from Harvard University

564
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: and it has Sean M. Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's

565
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Speaker 1: All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Boy, that's a mouthful. A

566
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Speaker 1: a ro O established in July of twenty twenty two

567
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Speaker 1: by the Department of Defense the d D to direct

568
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: and study objects of interest, and they released the draft

569
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Speaker 1: earlier this month. It is not though an official Pentagon document,

570
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: but was carried out in partnership with the Department of Defense,

571
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: and they say it has not been pure reviewed. But

572
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: that's pretty wild. This says aliens would likely want to

573
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: explore rocky planets with an atmosphere in the soul. How

574
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: you know this? Okay, So they don't think the probes

575
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: are like gonna go inside humans. I don't think they're

576
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: gonna go up your exit only. I don't think you

577
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. They are tiny. They are

578
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: tiny probe, so it might not hurt. Oh man, I

579
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: just took a big old probe. I understand, I understand.

580
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: I think we're good on that. Right, We're we're up

581
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: against the shitty way to end the show. It is

582
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: definitely a shitty way to end the show. It is Saturday, Danny,

583
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: anything specially you've got going on, anything you want to

584
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: promote here. I've got a baby shower that I've been

585
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: invited to. I'm very excited about that, Danny. I gotta

586
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: tell you, make sure you dominate those games at the

587
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: baby shower. Cannot wait. Will there be any games involving

588
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: male genitalia? I do not know. I do not for

589
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: our baby shower coming up in a couple of months.

590
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: I told my wife, I said, make sure you include

591
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 1: a game where you put a whole bunch of crunchy

592
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: peanut butter inside disposable diapers. Oh, that's a good idea,

593
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: and then you could What you should do is just

594
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: have an inside joke and then you like say, I'll

595
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: take care of that, and then you eat it. They

596
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: want the people at the party. We're like, ohoa, man,

597
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: that's disgusting. Oh I'm not even invited to her party.

598
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: Her party is going to be women only. I don't

599
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: understand how I'm invited to this. I thought I thought

600
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: baby shower just supposed to be women all. Yeah, there's

601
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: co ed ones and then there's ones where it's just

602
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: the girls. Racist. She wanted to kind of keep it

603
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Speaker 1: simple because I started booking a DJ, and I was

604
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: gonna get like the dance floor you put together and

605
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna bust out the caterpillar and the

606
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: running man and all that. It started getting complicated. She said,

607
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: you're out of this. It's all girls. Yeah, you just

608
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: do You could do like the rain Dance, remember the race.

609
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: What do you got going on today? Though? I got

610
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: that going on? What do you got going on day? Oh,

611
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: it's a simple Saturday for me. I am still working

612
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: on Danny G Radio row Now. I cleaned a lot

613
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Speaker 1: of the garage. You can't see it from your vantage

614
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: point through our cameras here. But now that I've organized

615
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 1: and cleaned, I need to buy a desk and start

616
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 1: getting my workspace put together. Now, may I recommend offer

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Speaker 1: Up and the free section. You'd be shocked at the

618
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: kind of stuff you can get. You just have to

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Speaker 1: have a truck to take it. Actually, the debt. One

620
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Speaker 1: of the desks I have here in my in my

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Speaker 1: studio I got for fifty bucks off offer Up. Nice

622
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Speaker 1: great desk. It's like a you know, seven eight hundred

623
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Speaker 1: dollars desk you have for fifty bucks. So great minds

624
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 1: think alike. I was on that site last weekend looking around. Yeah,

625
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: you'll find something, for sure. You gotta act fast though,

626
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 1: that's the problem. I'll give you that stuff's not there.

627
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: If it's good, it's gone pretty quick. So I will

628
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Speaker 1: get out on that and don't forget the mail bag

629
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Speaker 1: on Sunday, have a great rest of the day and

630
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:41,240
Speaker 1: enjoy the college hoops and the last weekend without real

631
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Speaker 1: major League Baseball until late October. I guess yeah, pretty well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: we'll catch you next time. Thank you, Austa Pasta bafolation