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Speaker 1: almost hit me. Just just cruise out of Dodger Stadium

427
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Speaker 1: with you know, cops all over the place, because at

428
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Speaker 1: the end of a Dodger game, nobody cared, like just

429
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Speaker 1: that's Pueek being peak. I guess. Yeah, well that was

430
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Speaker 1: part of the reasons he's no longer a Dodger. It

431
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Speaker 1: was pweak being pweak. They got they got tired of that.

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Speaker 1: I remember one time I was leaving and it was

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Speaker 1: a playoff game, Playoffs, and I parked in the auxiliary

434
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Speaker 1: media parking lot, which is down the hill. You probably

435
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Speaker 1: parked there if you worked at Dodger Stadium, bow you

436
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Speaker 1: know that you had to take a shuttle bus up

437
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Speaker 1: to the top of the hill right near the fire

438
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Speaker 1: Museum they have their Yeah, so I that during the

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Speaker 1: playoffs we have to park there, and it was the

440
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Speaker 1: overflow lot. And I remember one time I was walking.

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00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: I was always I take the shuttle up because it

442
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Speaker 1: was uphill to Dodgers Statum. But on the way back

443
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: I would just walk because it was all downhill. If

444
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Speaker 1: you know the layout of Dodger Stadium. So I'm walking

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Speaker 1: down and um, and there's a bunch of traffic after

446
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Speaker 1: a playoff game. It's about half an hour after a

447
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Speaker 1: playoff game, tons of traffic backed up, and uh there

448
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,719
Speaker 1: is a I see Cherry Tops. There's a police escort

449
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Speaker 1: leading yao peg down you know that backstreet that goes

450
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Speaker 1: behind that parking lot, leading Pueak to the one ten freeway.

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Speaker 1: It was like the funniest thing. He's he's driving this

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Speaker 1: clown card and he's got a police escort to lead

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Speaker 1: him past all the fans that are stuck in gridlocked

454
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Speaker 1: traffic trying to get out of Dodger Stadium at like

455
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Speaker 1: five o'clock after a day playoff game against the Brewers

456
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Speaker 1: or you know something like that. So yeah, alright, Uh,

457
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Speaker 1: what else do we have Let's see page down here,

458
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Speaker 1: A page down. Pierre in Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the

459
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Speaker 1: Pro Basketball Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, rights in and

460
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Speaker 1: he's got a couple of questions. He says, you're stuck

461
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Speaker 1: on a deserted island with gag On, Brian Finlay and

462
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Speaker 1: record Ralph. Who do you eliminate? First? All right, that's

463
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Speaker 1: his his question. And then the second question is what

464
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Speaker 1: do you do to pass the time with Finley and

465
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Speaker 1: Ralph until you're rescued? Uh? Well, Finley would probably tell

466
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Speaker 1: stories about tennis, right, or he ball washed some athletes,

467
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Speaker 1: which he loves to do. He is a big fanboy,

468
00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: loves his professional athletes. Uh. And then Ralph would probably

469
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 1: tell me some stories about the old days in San

470
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Speaker 1: Diego and we worked together at the Mighty, So that's

471
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Speaker 1: that's how we were past the time. And then we

472
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Speaker 1: just goof on, gag On, that's what we're doing. That

473
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Speaker 1: that that's that would be what we did. Uh. Yeah,

474
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Speaker 1: you imagined gag On on a deserted, deserted island. He

475
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: can't even handle doing a podcast. Eye. Yeah, he wouldn't,

476
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: he wouldn't make it. Yeah, I think I think he'd

477
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Speaker 1: last maybe six hours. I try to explain to guy

478
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Speaker 1: on the key to this, you've gotta be here every week.

479
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: He has missed more time, My god. Anyway, Dave from

480
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Speaker 1: Mill Valley rights in. He says, Ben, who would win

481
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Speaker 1: an arm wrestling match between you and David guns Gascon?

482
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Speaker 1: Would it be? Would he be a worthy opponent? Or

483
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Speaker 1: is he all show and no go? Well, Dave, thank

484
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: you for the question, Dave, And uh, of course the

485
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Speaker 1: answer is is he's not is he all show and

486
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Speaker 1: no go. It's he's all no show, is the answer.

487
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Speaker 1: Because he wouldn't show up. Yeah, you wouldn't show up.

488
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Speaker 1: He'd be the guy. He'd be like Conseco when Barstool

489
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,639
Speaker 1: had Conseco in that celebrity boxing match a couple of

490
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Speaker 1: weeks back, and Conseco it certainly looked like he took

491
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Speaker 1: dive there. He showed up, lasted five seconds or whatever,

492
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Speaker 1: and then now hit hit the hit the mat. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That would be Gagon. That would be all right. Big

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Speaker 1: Mike from Courtland, New York writes in Home of the

495
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Speaker 1: Red Dragons. He says, how about discussing all of this

496
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: sometimes confusing talk about quarterback shifting teams salary caps, dead money, etcetera.

497
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: The more this is talked about, the more it seems

498
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Speaker 1: to go in different angles. Perhaps you could make some

499
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Speaker 1: sense of it. Well, Big Mike, that's a sport oh question.

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Speaker 1: I will attempt to answer it briefly. I do this

501
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 1: kind of stuff on the Overnight Show. But I am

502
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 1: a salary cap cruther. I'm a salary cap truther. I

503
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: I believe it is fiction. It is malleable. It is

504
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: something you can move around. It is something you use

505
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: as an excuse when you don't want to keep someone

506
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Speaker 1: on your team. If you want to keep someone on

507
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Speaker 1: your team, you're gonna find the money. And because of

508
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Speaker 1: all of the loopholes and all of the offset language

509
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Speaker 1: and the fine print in these agreements, as the rams

510
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: are the living embodiment of this. Now, at some point

511
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: down the line, you have to you have to take

512
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: it in the shorts. But you can keep kicking it

513
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,199
Speaker 1: down the line. It's like the United States economy. You

514
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: know how much debt the United States is in. They

515
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: just keep finding, you know, loopholes and printing money and whatnot.

516
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: And you know, eventually eventually that will be problematic. Eventually

517
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: that will be problematic. But until then, no, so I

518
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: always gett a kick. I see these stories on the latest.

519
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 1: One this week was von Miller and the Broncos might

520
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: have to release von Miller for Sarry Cat reason all

521
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't have to release von Miller for

522
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: Sarry Cat reasons. They can move some some numbers around

523
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: and have fun with numbers, used the funny math there

524
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: to make it work. But they're they're over. They're like

525
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: von Miller is getting a little long in the tooth.

526
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,479
Speaker 1: He missed all last season. He wasn't as good as

527
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Speaker 1: he was that nineteen and he's part of the old guard.

528
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: Von Miller is part of the old Broncos. We want

529
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Speaker 1: a new identity and as long as von Miller is

530
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: gonna be there, he's gonna be associated with the old

531
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: Broncos and we want someone new, and so we'll move on. Ethan.

532
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: In Akron Ohio Rights in our man, Ethan, he says, hey, man,

533
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Speaker 1: I just got a job in ticket sales. Sales obviously

534
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: a huge part of the radio industry. That's true, Ethan.

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Speaker 1: Any sales advice or crazy sales stories that you've run

536
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: into over the years, well, Efan, good luck being the

537
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: sales guy because I actually briefly, briefly worked in sales.

538
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Speaker 1: I briefly worked in sales at a cable radio. He

539
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: gave me a desk and I was gonna dose sales,

540
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Speaker 1: and I I just was terrible at it. I was,

541
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: I was horrible at it. There's an art to it. Now.

542
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: My experience with sales people in radio is the way

543
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: to get the easy street is once you get with

544
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Speaker 1: the uh. I forget what they're called there that I

545
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Speaker 1: of the media buyers. The media buyers, I believe it is,

546
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: and so you know, they just buy a certain number

547
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: of spots every every month or whatever. I'm not sure

548
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Speaker 1: how the ticket game works and all that, and I

549
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: don't know what you're selling tickets to. But most of

550
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: all of human relations is is personal. So you've got

551
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: to get on the level. You're selling a product, but

552
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: you have to let the person know that you care

553
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: about them, and just like the basic stuff. I'm not

554
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: saying anything you have to go full Tony Robbins and

555
00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: go that direction. But from what I've heard from sales people,

556
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: most of the successful sales people, it is, you know,

557
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: knowing about people's families and getting on that personal level.

558
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: And I don't even know if you can do that

559
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: in the ticket sales game. I'm not sure how that

560
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: racket works. Um, but you can slowly work on those skills.

561
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: Jennifer in Richmond, Virginia. Right, since has Ben, my question

562
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Speaker 1: for you this time is what is one of your

563
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Speaker 1: favorite travel vacation memories? Also, if you had the opportunity

564
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Speaker 1: and to guarantee that you would make it back alive,

565
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Speaker 1: would you want to visit and walk on the moon. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: hell yes, Jennifery. As far as the moon part, yeah,

567
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Speaker 1: you guaranteed me I'd come back and I'd be in

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Speaker 1: one piece, and I'd have that experience of being out

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Speaker 1: in the cosmos and looking back at this little blue

570
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Speaker 1: rock rotating around, thinking everything I've ever known and everything

571
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Speaker 1: that has ever you know in the humanity has been

572
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Speaker 1: in that little blue dot. My god, that would be awesome. Plus,

573
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Speaker 1: I think you'd see some cool stuff. I think you

574
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Speaker 1: see some stuff that they don't tell us about traveling

575
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Speaker 1: to the moon. Yeah, I don't know, that's a that's

576
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: a no brainer, right, But I mean I think there's

577
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: there's goblins and creatures and stuff that we don't know about.

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00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, for sure, not believe that there's a other

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Speaker 1: other things out there but us. Yeah, oh definitely. Now

580
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: what those things are, who the hell knows, And but

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00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: there's something, there's something out there. And as far as

582
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: like the travel stories, yeah, I mean I remember family vacations.

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Speaker 1: I remember when you know the Mallard family is not

584
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: a camping family. Remember we tried to camp we failed. Um,

585
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: I remember that. Remember going to the Grand Canyon when

586
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: I was a kid, trips to Vegas, to Chicago to

587
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: see family in Chicago. Uh, I grew up in Orange County.

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00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: We'd go into l A to visit my relatives in

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Speaker 1: l A. I remember going to Hawaii, I mean northern California.

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Speaker 1: Just like random, random trips and very very fun mambies.

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00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: When when I was a kid, we had these big

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Speaker 1: family reunions because my family extended family spread out all

593
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Speaker 1: over the country, and the older generations of the family

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00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: always made it a point. I don't think it was

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00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: every year, but it was like every other year they'd

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00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: have a family reunion. They're usually in Phoenix, but sometimes

597
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: they were in Chicago, and we had the Midwestern family

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00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: and uh in other places, and so I I fondly

599
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: remember going to meet with my cousins and and uh,

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00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: you know all the the different characters that were in

601
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: the family and the older the older generation, which you

602
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: know they've died off now, but I have fond memories

603
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: of Uncle Joe and some of the some of the

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00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: people that we u we hung out with back there.

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00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: But I think that's most people. Right when you're a kid,

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00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: you remember certain certain things that stayed out about your

607
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: your childhood and trips that you made and things like that. Yeah. Yeah,

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00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: uh personally, like I had a family friend that would

609
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: take me to Disneyland every summer, Disneyland and Universal Studios.

610
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, so that was fun. But uh yeah,

611
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: I know that's that's those are probably like the most

612
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: memorable trips for me personally, was doing that every summer.

613
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: And I was like gotten older. I have you know,

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00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: when I have I have nieces and you know, nephews

615
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: and things like that. And in fact, my sister in

616
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: law just she's got a couple of young kids, so

617
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: I'm waiting they're not quite old enough yet. But there's

618
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: that goldilog zone when you're a kid between nine and eleven,

619
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: where you that's the point you don't reset. You know,

620
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: there's a certain point you reset, you're not gonna remember stuff.

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00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: Usually it's it's different for everybody. But I don't remember

622
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: anything before I was like five, But for a lot

623
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: of people, it's like nine, nine to eleven right around

624
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: there as you start to figure things out a little bit,

625
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: but you're still a kid, and like that's the time

626
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,719
Speaker 1: to take, you know, to have the trips to Disneyland

627
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: and those because those are lifetime memories that will influence

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00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: kids for like the rest of your life. Like I'm thinking,

629
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: like when I was a kid, the stuff I remember,

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00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: it was around that age nine, ten, eleven, twelve, right

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00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: around there. Yeah, no, I I I don't get the

632
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: people they take their infants to Disneyland, Like, uh, that

633
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: seems like a waste to me. Well because they're free,

634
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: but yeah, like when they start charging, like it's like,

635
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: you know, come on to really get the full experience,

636
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: it's gotta the kid's gotta be like, you know, seven, eight, nine,

637
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Speaker 1: I'd go nine to a nine to twelve someone in

638
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: those lines. So you gotta remember meeting Mickey, Yeah, exactly.

639
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,040
Speaker 1: It's very important, very very important. All right, who else

640
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: do we have let's see page down here. Eric and

641
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: Omas has any chance that the polar vortex is karma

642
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: for the cheating as Stros. I hope the buzzers are

643
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: frozen now. Wow. Then he says, prayers out to everyone

644
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: that went through the polar votchecks uh in Texas. Yeah

645
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: that was pretty crazy. Yeah, I'm gonna say that that

646
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the cheating Astros, but the

647
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: downfall of the Rockets and the downfall of the Texans,

648
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: there is a correlation between what happened with the Astros.

649
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: Stephen Boston writes and says, if Cam Newton returns next season,

650
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: will teams know his injury passed and total lack of ability,

651
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: Will they will start really going after him? Or because

652
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: of his likability, will he be given a past. No,

653
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be giving a pass. No, no, no,

654
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: they were, They were going after him this year. I

655
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: don't think that business operates where they don't go if

656
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 1: they you find a weakness. It's like anything the art

657
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: of war. You find your opponent's weakness and you attack.

658
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: So I can't If Cam comes back, holy crap, what

659
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: a what a disaster? Cam Newton is back? Is the

660
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: Patriots quarterback will have things will have have to gone

661
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: really wrong for that to happen. I think, Yeah, they

662
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: don't want to spend any money on a quarterback, and

663
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: he has spent a little bit. You can't sell Patriots

664
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: fans on another year of Cam. I just I just

665
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,720
Speaker 1: don't think it'll work. Well. They were hyping up Jared Stidham,

666
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: the other guy, and then they never hardly play him

667
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: at all, and they was talking about he was gonna

668
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: be the heir to Tom Brady and all that didn't happen.

669
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: That was weird. That never felt real to me. Um, yeah,

670
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: well I thought it was. I was buying into it,

671
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: and then What's training camp started? Forget about it? I'm

672
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: Matt you Almira New York rights in. He says, what

673
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: is the song that comes on the radio that you

674
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: absolutely can't stand and turn off immediately? So I think

675
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: we all have one. He says, mine would be Life

676
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: is a Highway. He says, I f and hate that song.

677
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm actually pissed right now just thinking about it. Um,

678
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: And so he then curses out Tom the guy that

679
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: made this song. Uh, you know, I I'm not good

680
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: with song names. My my thing, Matt is that I

681
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: I cannot stand the parts of songs where they just

682
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: repeat the lyrics over and over and over and over

683
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: and over and over and over and over and over

684
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: and over and over and over, and I just I'm done.

685
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of the newer songs where it's

686
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: just you have, like I understand, you have verses and

687
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: you repeat verses, but I'm saying it's just one line

688
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. I'm out. I'm out.

689
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: And you know, there's there's those lists of songs that

690
00:36:53,120 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: have the the most repetitive uh songs, which you know,

691
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: I again I don't know in names. I can look

692
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: them up if you want, but it's just I cannot

693
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: I cannot stand that. I just man, uh that there

694
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: was that pump Up, pump up the jam that's an

695
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: old one from back in the day. Heck uh even uh,

696
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: I don't know was it was it Funky Town? I

697
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: think it was that and it was that that was

698
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: trying to think of some of the older ones. But yeah,

699
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: that's what I had. Any song that is in your

700
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: head there both that you cannot stand, you know, I

701
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: I used it. I used Spotify mostly. I don't really

702
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: listen to the radio when I'm in my car, but working?

703
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: Are you working? Radio? Pet By? I do remember my

704
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: dad loves that song and I got a Evita. I

705
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: don't remember who does it. I remember the band, but

706
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: the first time I heard it, I just I begged

707
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: him to change it. And I think it's like thirteen

708
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: minutes long or something like that. So anytime he like

709
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: tries to listen to that song or talk about that song,

710
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: and just I can't do it. Yeah, that's that's my thing.

711
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: I think, the repetitive stuff. Um, I'm out of all right?

712
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: Who is next? Jason in Rocky Mount, Virginia, r J

713
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: and San Antonio. They both have similar questions about the

714
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: coldest weather we've ever been in. Uh, this is for

715
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: both me and Gagon. But Gagon again too lazy to

716
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: show up this week, so I will I will go first.

717
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: I have spent time in weather around below ten degrees

718
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: below ten degrees. I don't remember the exact temperature, but

719
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: it was on the East Coast. It was in Connecticut.

720
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: My trips back to Connecticut, I was doing stuff with

721
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: NBC or AT when I was listening my brother and

722
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: my relatives in New York. But I haven't usually gone

723
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,399
Speaker 1: back when in the winter. Normally I would go back

724
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: in the summer where it's just humid and kind of nasty.

725
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: But I've only I've only spent maybe my life around

726
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: a week in that really terrible weather total probably and

727
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: then actually be fair like around here in the hills.

728
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: I've gone up to the National parks around here where

729
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: it does get to that temperature, but never like minus

730
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: thirty wind show, I've never been in that, But I

731
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: I do believe both the show that cold is cold,

732
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: like once you get to a certain point of cold,

733
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: I don't think it gets much worse than that. That's

734
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: my belief any I think I think the most the

735
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: coldest weather I've ever been in was like November in Chicago,

736
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: So I want to say it was like eight degrees

737
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,800
Speaker 1: or something like that at night. But yeah, there's a

738
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,799
Speaker 1: certain threshold where it's just like it's cold and there's

739
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: nothing that's really going to change that. All right, moving

740
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: on Ramon from Virginia Beach, right, since says, do you

741
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: consider Russi lumb would be the greatest talk show host

742
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: of all time? The goat? If not who is well?

743
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 1: Russia is on that big board uh, certainly for political radio,

744
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: because he pretty much created the genre of modern political

745
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: talk radio, which both obviously conservatives have copied Rush, but

746
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: liberal talk show hosts have used the Rush format just

747
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: with different rhetoric. So it's it's similar in that regard.

748
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, Rush, Howard Stern the legends for me overnight

749
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: it was Art Bell, the late grade Art Bell, uh,

750
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: the king of overnight radio. And George Norry has done

751
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: a good job as a competitor, uh, you know, going

752
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: head to head with him, uh, in in that particular space.

753
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: And then something like who else are the forefathers of

754
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: modern radio? A lot of people saying sports radio is

755
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: Mike and the mad Dog at w f INN in

756
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: New York. Gym Rome had a lot for me. It's, uh,

757
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,880
Speaker 1: you know other people. There's different people, but Russia is

758
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: on that that big board for his contributions obviously too

759
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: to radio Kevin in Rockford, Illinois, right since is my

760
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: wife and I are driving to Tampa, Florida from Rockford

761
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: this coming weekend. It's gonna be a long trip, so

762
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: you best believe I will have the Mallard Show on tap.

763
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: Good job by you, and and he he points out

764
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: that His wife is not a big sports fan, but

765
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: according to Kevin, I told her that you had the

766
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: voice combination of Jesus and Frank Sinatra and could take

767
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 1: the virginity of non sports listeners across the country. She's

768
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: still not convinced. So how how do I go about

769
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: listening to your show on on our road trip without

770
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: getting bitched at more so for the way back, because

771
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: we will already be there by the time this podcast

772
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 1: is available. Yeah, well, those are those are great points

773
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: by Kevin. Good job by you. And what would be

774
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: the way to sell the show? I'm I'm not I'm

775
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: not totally sure how to do that. I do know

776
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: from other listeners experiences and whatnot that I don't know

777
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: this is a compliment or not, But I have been

778
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: told that some people listen to the show and don't

779
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: even like sports, but they like the show for some reason.

780
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: I get that, and I get that. I don't know

781
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: how that could be like because it's I mean, the

782
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: monologues are about sports, right, and the rest of the

783
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: show we kind of goof around, but it's a nod.

784
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: It's another thing, and I like some people will just

785
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 1: be lonely and call up and I know they don't

786
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: listen to the show. You can tell you know it

787
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: was called they want someone to talk to and I

788
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: happen to be the person on at four in the morning,

789
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,879
Speaker 1: and so they'll call up and you can tell they're

790
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: not really sports people and all that we get. I

791
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: get calls all the time on different shows that I'm

792
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: producing that are asking, uh, if this is the Ben

793
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: Mallor show. So, I mean, you know, you're a you're

794
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: a shoulder for them to cry on, or you don't

795
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: hear for them to tom I'm a radio shrink man. Actually,

796
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: the funny thing is I I don't know that management

797
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: agrees with this. I don't think they find it funny,

798
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: but I find it amusing. Some of the calls I

799
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: like the most are when people call up AND's like,

800
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm having a problem with my girlfriend or um, I

801
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: having a problem with my boss and they asked me

802
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: that Dopy Overnight sports guy for advice. I was going

803
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: to kick out of that. I was like, those are funds.

804
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, or maybe maybe longer than that,

805
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 1: there was that guy that called in about his pet, Bobcat.

806
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: You remember that, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that

807
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: was a wild you were that you were in that night. Yeah,

808
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: that's not sports at all, but that's uh, that's good radio. Yeah,

809
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: our buddy from North Hollywood with his pet Bobcat. Yeah,

810
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: and that started as a sports call. Remember, he wanted

811
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: to talk about sports, and then somehow it morphed into

812
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: this thing with the the cat and he didn't want

813
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: to talk about it, and then we got him to

814
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 1: talk about it, and uh yeah that was that was

815
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: wild and uh man, oh man, oh man. The the

816
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: Bobcat call Pinto was the guy's Pinto and he's working

817
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: nights now so he's not able to call. He hasn't

818
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: been able to call in a while. But Pinto and

819
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: the Bobcat he was out about. There's a little a

820
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: cub bobcat there and the uh as it has domesticated

821
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: it until the podcasts aren't that big, until the Bobcat

822
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: decides that it's hungry and eats the face of the

823
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: Bobcat or eats the face of of Pinto. Alright, last one,

824
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: last one. Here we go Tom from St. Augustine, Florida. Right,

825
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: since says, how come you and Gagon don't YouTube the

826
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: podcast like Benny versus the Penny. The production was high

827
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: quality by the end of the season, and you got

828
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: that fancy ass background. Would be cool to watch YouTube bullshit,

829
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: thank you? Uh well, Tom, there's a couple of reasons

830
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: we don't do that. The podcast. Uh you know, there's

831
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: financial reasons. We would put it on YouTube to make money,

832
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: but this podcast is property of my Heart Media. We

833
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: do it under that umbrella, so I'm pretty sure they

834
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't want us to sell the podcast the YouTube video.

835
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: And then we want people to download the the show

836
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: via I Heart or Apple or wherever you get your

837
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: podcast from. And so if we were put a platform

838
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: up on YouTube, which I'm I'm not against, if there

839
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: was some money in it, but that would take away

840
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: from the downloads. And ultimately we get judged and compensated

841
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: based on how many people download the podcast. And if

842
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: nobody downloads it, we are doing this pro bono for free.

843
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: Uh people downloaded, we will make a little bit of money.

844
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: We're not getting rich on it at all, and so

845
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 1: it's we're really about getting the downloads. I have considered

846
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: doing a different YouTube show we did Benny versus the Penny,

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