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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 soul fashion of fairness. He

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

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Speaker 2: It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.

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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 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 Maller and Danny g Radio,

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Speaker 3: who's producing this podcast on this Friday, our final podcast ever.

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Speaker 3: We will never do another podcast in February of twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five.

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Speaker 1: This is it.

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Speaker 3: This is It's all over. It is all over today.

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Speaker 3: It ends right now. I know, I know. It's a

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Speaker 3: fun day today. It's a show that I always look

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Speaker 3: forward to. We do the show every single year, and

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Speaker 3: we're doing it on Friday. It's the red carpet event

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Speaker 3: for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards, the greatest night

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Speaker 3: in overnight sports talk radio, the night that we celebrate

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Speaker 3: the people that make the Ben Mahler Show a show.

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Speaker 3: And we'll give you all the malarads. What we expect

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Speaker 3: to happen. Well we get any surprises, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: The voting is still going on right now, and we're

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Speaker 3: That's the magic of the Benny Awards. But as far

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Speaker 3: as today's concerned, it's the twenty eighth day of February

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Speaker 3: and it is National Chocolate sou Flay Day. So make

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Speaker 1: It's National Pancake Day. Now. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 3: I don't eat breakfast food very often, but when I do,

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Speaker 3: and the famous lines selling like hotcakes. But the word

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Speaker 3: And when you think pancakes now, the original pancake will

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Speaker 3: Kelly in Des Moines again, Kelly formerly in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: Manuel and Guardina, a legend who's been with me since

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Speaker 3: Chris in the Commonwealth, Chris and Massachusetts, and also Chris

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants to hear me winning a Benny Award. That's silly.

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Speaker 1: You've got the great Stevie Meatballs. Quite a character.

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Speaker 3: Stevie Meatballs lives in Florida, and he's very angry a

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Speaker 3: The Blind Seahawk fan love Emmett Young dude loves the show.

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Speaker 1: Very competitive category. I was told by.

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Speaker 3: One of these people will be winning the Benny. We

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Speaker 3: Show, Ozzie Wiz Ozzi Momentum, Terry in England, and mister

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Speaker 3: Mouthwash Mike is the black irishman who called the Overnight

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Speaker 3: It's Ladies' night. You've got Tammy in Montana and Tammy's

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Speaker 3: She looks after some of the wackadoodles that are part

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Speaker 3: The votings open until Sunday night. Gunner in Minnesota. Gunner

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Speaker 3: Way past to Luth and I thought the Luth was

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Speaker 3: back to back? Do we have to call him a

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Speaker 3: dynasty of suck? If he wins now, he might not

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Speaker 3: win because you look around and hollering James. There's a

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Speaker 3: Love Hate Relationship. I was told by several of you

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Speaker 3: that Marcel and Brooklyn should have been nominated for this category.

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Speaker 3: You really despise Marcel in Brooklyn. He was not not

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Speaker 3: dominated for this award this year. So congratulations to all

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Speaker 3: of the callers that are absolutely terrible and continue to

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Speaker 3: call the show.

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Speaker 1: We do appreciate it. And now we have reached the crescendo.

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Speaker 3: The highest honor for the twenty twenty five Bennies and

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Speaker 3: another very competitive category, very very competitive, the highest honor

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Speaker 3: in overnight talk radio, the twenty twenty five Genie and

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Speaker 3: Medford Caller of the Year. Yes, this is the prize

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Speaker 3: of prizes, This is the masterpiece. It is an absolute

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Speaker 3: neck and neck battle here down the stretch in this

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Speaker 3: category as well. And the nominees are Andre from the Commonwealth,

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Speaker 3: a regular in our one, Marcel in Brooklyn, who's very

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Speaker 3: polarizing because some of you dope so like he's the

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Speaker 3: worst caller.

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Speaker 1: Other people think he's good.

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00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 3: Whoopee Pie Blair from Maine. Blair is on TikTok Now

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00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 3: he doesn't call the show that much anymore. He checks

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Speaker 3: in every once.

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Speaker 1: In a while. Jed, who Fled, is a fan favorite.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually on the live air helmet Man.

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Speaker 3: I'm a big helmet man guy. I love helmet Man.

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00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 3: I rotate nuts. He loves to talk about being from Baltimore.

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00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 3: He hasn't been to Baltimore since the early eighties. Weed

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Speaker 3: Man Hippie is also a previous winner of the Caller

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Speaker 3: of the Year, Manuel in Gardena. We love Manuel, Yes,

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Speaker 3: had a tough run here of late, but we love

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Speaker 3: the contribution Manuel and Guardina makes the show. And one

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Speaker 3: of my favorites is Tony in the Bay Area. I

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Speaker 3: might be the only one. I laugh every time Tony calls.

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Speaker 3: I love his delivery, sense of humor, the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: He's just a very funny man toning the Bay Area

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Speaker 3: and I enjoy his work. Now is that enough to

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Speaker 3: win the highest honor on the Ben Malor Show, the

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Speaker 3: highest honor in overnight sports talk radio.

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Speaker 1: Probably not? Probably not, But listen, this is too close

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Speaker 1: to call.

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Speaker 3: I'm told also, and based on the information I have

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Speaker 3: in front of me here, this is actually now the

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Speaker 3: closest category, not International Caller of the Year. It is

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Speaker 3: the Genian Medford Caller of the Year, not the International caller.

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Speaker 3: So congratulations to everybody the favorite based on name value.

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Speaker 3: You got to put weed Man, Hippie, Marcel helmet Man,

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Speaker 3: Jed hu Fled. I mean, all these guys call a lot,

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Speaker 3: so good luck to all of them. And I'm told

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Speaker 3: that this is separated by less than one percent first

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Speaker 3: to second place and first to third place is separated by.

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Speaker 1: Three point four percentage points. That's how close.

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Speaker 3: This is the highest honor and overnight Sports Talk Radio

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Speaker 3: the Genie had meant for Caller of the Year award.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll get out on that. Have a wonderful Friday.

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Speaker 3: We thank you for supporting the show and being loyal,

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Speaker 3: and we're let this kind of breathe all weekend long

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Speaker 3: here and then make sure to vote. If you want

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00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 3: to have other people vote, let them know, send them

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Speaker 3: a link. It's on my x page at the very top.

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Speaker 3: It's also on the Facebook page on the Ben Malor

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Speaker 3: Show Facebook page.

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Speaker 1: And good luck to everybody.

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Speaker 3: We hope you guys enjoy the Bennys and we'll have

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Speaker 3: a new show. Hopefully Dany'll be with me, I don't

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Speaker 3: know his schedule on Saturday, and then we'll have the

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Speaker 3: mail bag on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go sleep is what

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, I have a wonderful, wonderful day later, skater who

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Speaker 3: that's how you do it right, Danny wrong, Asta pasta,

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Speaker 3: got a murder.

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Speaker 1: I gotta go.