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Speaker 1: There's no other way. I mean, there are some long

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Speaker 1: streets in l A, but they're all jammed up too,

425
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Speaker 1: so it's right, there's not It's not like I could

426
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Speaker 1: just go on frontage roads because I'm now I'm going

427
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: past canyons and stuff like that. Like if I exit

428
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: to the right, I'm gonna go to Malibu. Um, so

429
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare. Yeah. So I made an executive decision.

430
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: Ben I was like, Okay, it's way more miles, but

431
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,199
Speaker 1: maybe it'll move. I exit, flip a bit, and I

432
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Speaker 1: go the other direction. I go north on the one

433
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: oh one. So now I backtrack the few miles that

434
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Speaker 1: I was able to go. At least it was moving

435
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Speaker 1: in that direction. I get on the twenty three Freeway,

436
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: which goes through Simi Valley, home of the famous producer

437
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: on your nightly radio ship. How bad could this drive be?

438
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the traffic through that city was a nightmare,

439
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: not moving at all. And now it's five thirty. I'm like,

440
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 1: am I even gonna get to the studios? Am I

441
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to call somebody? Finally I get through Simi Valley.

442
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: Finally get to north Ridge. Now it is bumper to

443
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: bumper in north In the rain is just pounding our windshields.

444
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 1: I mean it's that kind of rain where, no matter

445
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: how fast your windshield wipers are going, you cannot see

446
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: really what's in front of you. Sure um, Finally make

447
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: it to the four oh five Freeway. Take that north

448
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: to the student ohs. So I left at four. Then

449
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: I got to the studios at six thirty pm. Wow.

450
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: I had a half hour to quickly do the commercial

451
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: reads for Jason and Mike. Problem with that is you

452
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: need time to decompress. I can't. I do not do

453
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: traffic well. Unfortunately, I haven't had to do traffic in

454
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Speaker 1: a while. But when I get stuck in traffic, I

455
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: just need about half an hour to forty minutes to

456
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: just like not deal with anything. I I am so

457
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: stressed out dealing which I don't know how people do it.

458
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: I I don't know how people deal with that kind

459
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: of traffic on a regular basis. It's insane. The tech

460
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: producer connects Jason and Mike, and they're both all happy,

461
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: in good moods. How you guys doing tonight? We're sitting

462
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 1: in their underwear. Yes, because they're at their home studios.

463
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: They didn't even have to touch car keys. Yeah, and

464
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: I'm shaking my fist at the heavens like, um, I

465
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:01,360
Speaker 1: was able to decompress in that power. I was there

466
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: by the time the show started. I was fine. But man,

467
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, for two and a half hours to go

468
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: twenty one miles insanity. Well, and just wait until the

469
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: studios moved to Burbank. You're talking about another but forty

470
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: minutes in traffic. Probably, I'm sorry. I a helicopter. Do

471
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: you have a Kobe copter or a motorcycle? Those are

472
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: my two dangerous options. Yeah, motor I don't know, but

473
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: I feel like you're safer a helicopter. I don't know though,

474
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: but would disagree with you. Yeah, well yeah, I hear

475
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: you on that. But as long as it's not foggy,

476
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: stay out of the fog, and I think you'll you'll

477
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: be okay. So we have this thing we we used

478
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: to we used to do it and we stopped doing it.

479
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: And I want to bring a pop quiz. So I

480
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: will quiz you, Danny and the listener, and then you

481
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: have to try to figure out you know the answer

482
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: is very simple, okay. And so this is random stuff

483
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: I found around the internet because I have no life.

484
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: So the average person, we'll say this five times today.

485
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: What do you think it is? Five times? Good morning? No, no,

486
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: not good morning, but it is a greeting, okay, it

487
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: is thank you? All right? Only five times? Well more

488
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: than that. You've been around kids lately, not all of

489
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: them have been given etiquette, proper manners and decorum U.

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00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: A new survey recently found that parents spend just under

491
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Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars a year on this. What do you

492
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: think it is? Eight hundred dollars a year on parents

493
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: spend this eight d oh if it was only a

494
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: fast food these days, dan As you know, you're like

495
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: I spent eight hundred dollars and two months. I used

496
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 1: to know exactly how much my order was at Wendy's.

497
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 1: It was like seven seven dollars. I remember when it

498
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: went up to seven dollars. I don't think I could

499
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: get out on Wendies for less than like sixteen bucks.

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00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: And these days, you know, it's it's expensive now, oh

501
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: it's it's really everything. But the answer is their kids allowance. WHOA,

502
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: let's do the map. It's twelve months a year, eight

503
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,000
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. How much does that work out to be? Yeah? Right,

504
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: you know what. My mom pointed up at the roots

505
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: and said, that's your allowance. That's your allowance. That's not

506
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: that's good. You know, that's good allowance. I remember sporadically

507
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: having an allowance, but it wasn't like every week, and

508
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: it was really more of a bonus and incentive bonus

509
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: to do chores around the house, the vacuum or uh whatever.

510
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Speaker 1: All right, this is the number one food we all

511
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Speaker 1: hated as a kid, but we supposedly love. Now. I'm

512
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: gonna say, broccoli, Uh, you're you're, you're in the vegetable family,

513
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't agree with this one. Asparagus,

514
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: you eat asparagus. I could see that. I mean, you know,

515
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,959
Speaker 1: when my mom was having some money issues when I

516
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: was young, she she got the asparagus in the can.

517
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: You ever had that? No, I don't recommend it. Uh,

518
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: pretty nasty and soggy, and I hated it. And then

519
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: as an adult, I had it roasted at a fancy

520
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: restaurant and I was like, Okay, I could get down

521
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: with this. I see why people like this. But is

522
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: it asparagus? In some people it turns your your urine fluids. Yeah,

523
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: you can smell it, right, it comes out and you

524
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: can still smell it. Oh yeah, not not everyone has it, right,

525
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: It's only a percentage of people. If it's in your

526
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Speaker 1: d n A. I've never heard that. I thought that

527
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: happened to every one. I don't think it's for everybody,

528
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: but um, a lot of people have it. And yeah,

529
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: that's any food that you can eat. And then when

530
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: it comes out the other end, it smells the same.

531
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: That's something about that I don't I don't. I don't

532
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: know about that one anyway. Next one on pop quiz,

533
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: what was the one vegetable you hated as a kid

534
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: that you Oh my god, I my the only fights

535
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: I really got into with my mom. I love my mom.

536
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: That I was a mama's boy. May she rest in peace.

537
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: But the ones I would get into work Benjamin, eat

538
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: your vegetables. And she loved peas I hated. She uh,

539
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: and then she would change it up, and she tried

540
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: to tell me that, oh, this tastes really good. I

541
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: take a bite. Eventually it was disgusting. She made a

542
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: lot of broccoli. Um, cauliflower I hated. I hated the

543
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: smell of cauliflower. But I pretty much despised all vegetables

544
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 1: when I was growing up. And now, oh, I like,

545
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: you know, some select vegetables I'll eat. But even to

546
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: this day, I'm not a big vegetable guy. What about you, Danny, Well,

547
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: there's some good cauliflower pizza out there on the market. Yeah.

548
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: My wife, she does the gluten free thing, so she's yeah. Yeah.

549
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: I hated the spinach on the plate, the soggy soft spinach.

550
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, spinach tangy taste too. Did your mom ever tall? Well?

551
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: Pop by the Sailor, man, ain't that screw? Pop By

552
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: the sailor man my ass, he was on steroids. Yeah,

553
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: there was spinach on the plate. I wanted to gag.

554
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: I was not a fan of that. Um. I guess

555
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: lima beans and stuff like that too. Oh yeah, lima

556
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: beans are disgusting, so nasty. It's all the texture, though,

557
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: isn't it. You're right? And then my grandmother would try

558
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: to top everything off by pouring us a glass of

559
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: prune juice. And she'd say, no, no, no, you need this.

560
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: And I wanted to roll up to clear out your system. Right, Yeah, yeah,

561
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: I got that. I got Uh. Some of the Jewish

562
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: holidays they'd have home and tash In and they'd have

563
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: prune and poppy seed and uh yeah. I was not

564
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: not particularly a fine memory. All we'll do a couple

565
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: more and then we've got to save time. Get the

566
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: mail bag on Sunday. So sixte of us? Uh, six

567
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: of us have broken up with someone over this? What

568
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: do you think it is? Threesomes three? Uh? No, because

569
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: they cheered for a different NFL team. Wow. Have you

570
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: ever broken up with someone in part because they did

571
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 1: not like the right team? Well, I wouldn't say that

572
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: that was the reason why it was a breakup, but

573
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: I will say that that was an added bonus with

574
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: them being gone, I'm like, oh, thank god, I don't

575
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: have to see that ugly Broncos gear anyway. Well, but don't,

576
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: don't you think though, Danny, like I think most of

577
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: us as guys. I don't know how women feel about this,

578
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: but most of us. If a woman is beautiful, and

579
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: you will overlook that element, at least at the beginning.

580
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: You know, when I didn't date very many women because

581
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: they wouldn't get near me. But I would date women,

582
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 1: and sometimes they were fans of teams I didn't like,

583
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: or you having a RAM fan, they like the forty Niners,

584
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: and I mean like, yeah, you know, but they're really

585
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: good looking, and uh, you know, you kind of put

586
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: up with it, and then after a while that once

587
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: you get settled in, you're like, this is annoying. I

588
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: look at the sports aspect right off the bat. I mean,

589
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: my TENDERRONI right now wasn't a Dodger raid Laker fan.

590
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: There's no way I would have given her a ring.

591
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: I just don't think. So. Yeah, it was just easy

592
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: sledding right away. Whereas somebody who roots against your team,

593
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: and that's supposed to be your partner. No, and you

594
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: want to sock them in the throat because they're rooting

595
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: against your team. Yeah, it just doesn't work for me. Well,

596
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: but think of the fun wagers you could conceivably make

597
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: when your team's played. Yeah, you know, people say that

598
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: it just doesn't work out that way. I got you,

599
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: I got you all right. Uh. Last one, this occurs

600
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: more the first week of the new year than any

601
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: other time. People getting ripped off at clubs. Uh No,

602
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: but it does involve something that happens to the people

603
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 1: that work. Oh, people getting laid off. Yes, yeah, people

604
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: get the first week of the new year more than

605
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: any other time. The rest of the year, people get

606
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 1: laid off. That makes sense because the corporate slugs don't

607
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: want to ruin their own Christmas by laying off staff,

608
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: so they wait for Christmas to be over. Well, and

609
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,479
Speaker 1: that's my I've always worked in the radio business where

610
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: they usually use fire us before the holidays. They don't

611
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: even wait for the holidays, And people always say, oh,

612
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: it's so cruel the fire people. I would think it's

613
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: even worse though. There's no good time to be fired.

614
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: I've been fired a few times from radio jobs. There's

615
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 1: no good time to lose your job. But I would

616
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: say it's actually better before the holidays because then you

617
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: spend all this money and you think you have a job,

618
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: and then you come back and you're like, no, you

619
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: don't have a job. Get out of here, clean out

620
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: your stuff, and you're like, wait a minute, I've been

621
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: all this money, I went on a vacation and yeah,

622
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: that we talked about it. That's why it's tough to

623
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: be a Capricorn, because everybody's broke when it's your birthday. Yeah,

624
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: you're right. Everybody's trying to make their credit card payment

625
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: in the month of January. There's not extra cash flying around.

626
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: So I would rather know before I spend all this

627
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: holiday money. Well and yeah, and I in radio. Usually

628
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: when you get through the Christmas holiday, you're yeah, I

629
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 1: made it, you know, and then you and then you realize, well, no,

630
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: you didn't. Anyway, all right, we're gonna get out of here.

631
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: Thank you, Danny. And you can obviously be part of

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Speaker 1: the podcast. If you want to email a question or

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Speaker 1: just any kind of statement about the podcast, you can

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Speaker 1: do that. My email address I used for this show.

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Speaker 1: This is only for the podcast. It's Real fifth Hour

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Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. You're obviously fine. Uh and that's

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Speaker 1: the number, uh, the letter five. By the way, it's

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Speaker 1: not the number five, Real fifth hour f I F

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Speaker 1: T H hour at gmail dot com. And then you're

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. I'm on Twitter, Danny, and you're at Danny

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Speaker 1: Radio at Ben Mallard. Absolutely all right, have a wonderful

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Speaker 1: rest of your Saturday, and we'll have the mail bag

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Sunday, Sunday Later. Skater