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Speaker 1: for the very popular mail back. Do you have your

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Speaker 1: I the email rights are far more experts in real

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Speaker 1: Peter to come on, even though he hated Clay's guts.

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00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 1: That's really the only workaround, I think when it's a

425
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: guy that hates the guy you're trying to connect them with,

426
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: so it has to be financial. There has to be

427
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: a financial stake, and that's how Shatner ended up unblocking me.

428
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: Is that a Trekky a star trek NERD was so

429
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: bothered by the warring Mallard militia and all that that

430
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 1: this guy Shatner had on his one of his charity things.

431
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: He had the whole to do about how you know,

432
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: you wanna you don't want to end this and I'll

433
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: follow ben I don't think followed me. He doesn't follow me,

434
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:45,880
Speaker 1: but donated dollars and some dude did. I don't even

435
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,439
Speaker 1: know the guy. And then the guy just he was

436
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 1: tired of the whole thing and he's like, hey, let's

437
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: let me settle this right now, and he did. And

438
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: Shatner followed through and saved a horse's ass or something like.

439
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: Now you guys are best friends on Twitter. I didn't matter.

440
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: He didn't check in on me before he went to

441
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: outer space. We did have a brief interaction on on

442
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 1: the Twitter machine, but it's it's been a while. So

443
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: I love how the militias celebrates his birthday every year. Yeah, yeah, Well,

444
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: there's so many good Foot soldiers that met their demise

445
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: at the hands, you know, the Twitter demise at the

446
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: hands of William Shatner. It was it was interesting. That

447
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: was a fun time though that that night, when spats

448
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: with shots originated, and that there was that one night

449
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: he was flying to Germany, and because he was up

450
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 1: the whole night on a plane, and I guess they

451
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: had WiFi because he's William Shatner, so he's not sitting

452
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: in the cheap seats, and he kept replying, and he

453
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: was trying to block everybody, and he was in such

454
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 1: a hurry, and he was so flustered. He started following

455
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,880
Speaker 1: security guards and guys cleaning toilets. And you know, the

456
00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: the hardcore me of the Mallard Show, the people that

457
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: are working busting their ass all night and they're getting

458
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: a follow from William Shatter. Joe Blow, who's got three followers,

459
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: has William Shatner clicking follow trying to block him? Insane?

460
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: Absolutely insane. But Shatter still doing pretty since ninety or

461
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: something wrong that none William Shatter and he's still he's

462
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 1: still going. He hasn't had the old Donkey coom anyway. Uh,

463
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 1: let's see what is next here. Kevin and Kansas rights

464
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: in on the mail back, says, dear Ben and Danny

465
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 1: g Or, both of you have seen and visited a

466
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: lot of stadiums over the years, which ones were so

467
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: horribly awful that everyone was glad when they got a

468
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 1: new place. Well, the first one I will bring up

469
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: is the l A Memorial Sports Arena, which I spent

470
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Speaker 1: a lot of my life at. The Clippers played there

471
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: in the nineties and late eighties, and that place was

472
00:27:55,720 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: a total, uh, tear down, destroy what ever you want

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00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: to say. And I the last time I ever went

474
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Speaker 1: in the l A Sports Arena was at a USC

475
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,959
Speaker 1: Notre Dame game and they put the overflow parking on

476
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: the floor of the sportsmen So I parked at a

477
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: big four f one fifty truck and I parked my

478
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Speaker 1: truck on the floor of the l A Sports Arena

479
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: and somewhere I took pictures of it. I haven't been

480
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,360
Speaker 1: able to find the photo, but it was crazy. That's

481
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: a place that it had NBA All Star Games, NBA Finals,

482
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 1: That's where the Lakers had played when they moved to

483
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 1: l A, you know, in the early days, and I

484
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: saw the Candy Man play there. Yeah, I mean it

485
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: was that was amazing hockey that all kinds big events.

486
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: They had political uh what do you call it conferences

487
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: or whatever? The conventions conventions were held there, lots of

488
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: rap concerts. I saw West Side Connection performed there. Yeah,

489
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: but by the time that place was you know, the

490
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: Clippers had moved out of there. The USC was kind

491
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: of planning there. Then they got a new arena. That

492
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: place was a dump. And how did they fill the

493
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: seats for Clipper games back then, Ben, Well, Yeah, at

494
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: halftime they would open up the doors and they were

495
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: there would be more people in the second half in

496
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: the first half and they were actually just a lot

497
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: of homeless people or people down on their luck trying

498
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: to get out of the cold. Yeah, and den you know,

499
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: not that it gets that cold in l A. But

500
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: December and January and they'd come in there and it

501
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: was Boy, the stuff I saw at the sports are

502
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: holy moly. That is it will be in your book, Yeah,

503
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: it'll be in my tell Bucking. I'd say. Shay Stadium

504
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: is another one. I don't know if you ever went there,

505
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: but I was with the Dodgers and we went to

506
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: Shaye Stadium and that place was a complete rat hole. Uh,

507
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: just horrible at And I know what you're thinking. The

508
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: Oakland Alameda Coliseum, which is still there, hasn't They have

509
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: not torn that that things that dump too. I have

510
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: been there but some historic NFL and Major League Baseball

511
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: games took place on that field. Unfortunately, the building around

512
00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: the field was crumbling or is crumbling still. A few

513
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: years ago, I think it was ten season, I got

514
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: to go in the bowels of that stadium as a

515
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: stringer to get the star of the game to call

516
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: into fs R. There were hanging live wires like you

517
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: could see sparks from, you know, these electrical wires that

518
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: were hanging down almost touching people's heads. The popcorn machine

519
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: up in the media area where the broadcasters were that

520
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: wasn't working. The soda machine wasn't working. That Mackenzie d

521
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: that used to be the general manager was mumbling and

522
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: grumbling as he walked over the stained carpet. He was

523
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: bitching about how stuff wasn't working. And that's pretty much

524
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: in a nutshell that place. Obviously, all the stories about

525
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: the urinals not working and floods with what I guess,

526
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: muddy water. Just take a guess what's in the water.

527
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: It's what can brown do for you? I mean, the

528
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: stench coming out of those bathrooms. But and the home

529
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: field advantage at that place was insane. Now you look

530
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: at Vegas, it's obviously a great destination if you want

531
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: to see your favorite NFL team. So you just don't

532
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: have that same home field advantage anymore as a Raider.

533
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: So that's the bad part. But that building, oh my god, Ben,

534
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: they need to honor it and show all those great

535
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: memories there and then bulldoze the place and give the

536
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: Oakland A's a brand new stadium. It's like the area

537
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: around Chernobyl there's that zone you can't enter in and

538
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: just get rid of that thing. And have you ever

539
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: seen that creek water around the coliseum there. I mean,

540
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: it's toxic. If you overthrow a NERF football and it

541
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: goes down there, you're not getting a whole NERF back.

542
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: And I remember watching games when I was a kid

543
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: on TV when the A's when the Raiders were in

544
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: l A And that place looked for baseball, was beautiful

545
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: with the backdrop and all that. And then they built

546
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: Mountain they us and that was a disaster. I was

547
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,479
Speaker 1: also I'm trying to think some other stadiums. A county

548
00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: stadium in Milwaukee, qualcom alcome yeah, Jack Murphy Stadium. Yeah,

549
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: that's that's gone now right. They got rid of that

550
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: for they're building the San Diego State Stadium. There I

551
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: was told, yeah, they blew that building up. Yeah, I

552
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time there. And that's another one.

553
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: But that that one never, to me was really that beautiful.

554
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: You know. It was like I go to Padre games

555
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: and I went a few Charger games and the people

556
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: were cool. The tailgating and Charger games is kind of

557
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: eating the parking lot, but the stadium was was brutel,

558
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: brutel and similar qualities to Oakland. Yeah, thank you, Kevin.

559
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: That inspired some hot talk. Hot talk. We do have

560
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: more mail. Terry from New Franklin, Ohio. Right since says

561
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: choose one A. You can keep your Holiday Derek decorations

562
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: up all year long. Be you never decorate for the

563
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: holidays again and see to me, the outcome would be

564
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: the same. And I'll tell you why. Because if you

565
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: keep the holiday day decorations up year round, it loses

566
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: its wild fact. You become used to it. It's like

567
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: my theory. Now. Mr West of the four oh five,

568
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: who was on the podcast before you, I used to

569
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: fight with him by like everyone talks about, you want

570
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: to live near the ocean, you wanna have ocean front views.

571
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: You wanna have skyline views of Miami or New York

572
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: or Chicago. But once you live there after a while,

573
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: it just becomes normal. It's not like you sit there

574
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: and stare out the window, you know what I'm saying.

575
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: And so that's always been my theory, Like you want

576
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: to live in a good part of town, but you

577
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: don't know, you don't necessarily need to have great views

578
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: because you're just not You're not gonna look after a while.

579
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: It's maybe your friends will be impressed when they come over,

580
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: but you're like, let's just that's home, you know. It's

581
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: like that's the way it is. So I actually I

582
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: called the Queen tender owning a mini Mallard last week

583
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: because she had lights go out on the top half

584
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: of her fake Christmas tree that she's had for years,

585
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: and then she found this thing eight years ago on

586
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: sale for thirty five bucks. It's a good move. I

587
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: told her, you'd be proud of her. Do you think

588
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: a she threw the tree away and finally bought a

589
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: new one or be she bought thirty five dollars in

590
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: lights and strong new lights on the top half of it.

591
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: That's a solid move, Listen, that's a good job by you,

592
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: and that's the way to do it. Listen, things are expensive,

593
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: everything is more expensive these days. Why not? And he's

594
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 1: saving the environment at the same time, right, saving the environments.

595
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: I like that. That's good. Yeah, we haven't done any

596
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: holiday decorations because the house is a absolute mess. But

597
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: my answer, I think the answer, Terry to answer your

598
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: question is it wouldn't really matter because if you keep

599
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: them up all year, they come used to him, and

600
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,840
Speaker 1: I think it would be no fun never to decorate.

601
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: So is that the worst most political answer of all time? Danny?

602
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: Is that Bella has been leaving some holiday treats around. Yes,

603
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: shell over your floor, by the way, it's hit and miss.

604
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: You know, someday she's good. The other day she decided

605
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: to hellttle rain in l A so that she did

606
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: not enjoy that. We need update she's yeah, well, yeah,

607
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: she leaves. We don't call him poop Danny. We call

608
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: him little cups of clumps of coal is what we

609
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: called him. There And alright, Pierre from Springfield, mass home

610
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: of the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame where Muffett McGraw

611
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: is Enshrine, says Ben and Danny Gee have either of

612
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:51,240
Speaker 1: you performed the Costco food court Marcel food Pick de Luxe.

613
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: What is that you ask? It is rolling up a

614
00:35:54,680 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: slice of pizza around a Costco hot dog And he

615
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: sent some video here Danny of someone on TikTok doing this. Wow,

616
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: that's a veteran, veteran move. Also, I I have never

617
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: done that. I usually what I'll do is I will

618
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: get the hot dog and the pizza. I get the

619
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: I eat the hot dog first because I feel like

620
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: once that gets colder, it's not as enjoyable to eat pizza.

621
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: You can eat when it's a little cool. That's a

622
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: good move, yeah, but I've never done them. At the

623
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 1: same time. I separate them because I'd rather have two

624
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: big slices of pizza and maybe two hot dogs, but

625
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: in separate sittings. I don't like the pizza and the

626
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: hot dog together. One of my goals is to go

627
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: to Canada to not only eat the poutine. But we

628
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: had a listener in Vancouver that used to send me

629
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: screenshots every time you go to Costco because at the

630
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: Costco in Vancouver at least a few years ago, they

631
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: had chicken fingers and fries on the menu, And I'm like, Wow,

632
00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: that's like next level. Yeah, they streamlined the menu during COVID.

633
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: They got rid of a lot of stuff at Costco

634
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: for a while. They got rid of the Barry Sunday.

635
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: That's blasphem. You can't give rid of the Barry So, like,

636
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: what the hell is that getting rid of the Barrys sign?

637
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: They brought it back. People complained they brought back the

638
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: Barry Sunday. James in Greensboro writes, and he says, why

639
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: is Muffett McGraw always mentioned when you mentioned the Hall

640
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: of Fame? Uh, there's two reasons for that, James A.

641
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: It's a funny name to say, Uh, and that's the

642
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: main thing. And Muffett McGraw, that's just kind of it

643
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: sounds like it sounds like a mistake or something like that. Uh,

644
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: there's that. And then also the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.

645
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: It's to make a point, the NBA doesn't actually have

646
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame. Technically Baseball, Major League Baseball doesn't.

647
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: It's a National Baseball Hall of Fame. But I just

648
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: point out that it's people go to Basketball of Fame

649
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: and you think like Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan's you know,

650
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: and then you see Muffett McGraw and the Russian coach

651
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: from nine two or something like that, and you're like,

652
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: what is it. That's just just having some fun, Jane,

653
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: just having some fun. Calm down. I love filling in

654
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: for Coop on the Ben Mallard Show, on the Live

655
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: Radio show, because when you do the NBA Pick them,

656
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: I go back and I find the best nineteen eighties

657
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: NBA player names, and those are the picks I give

658
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: for Coop. Board has Hell, Danny g for Cooper. I'm

659
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: gonna go with a dark Alley guy, Charles Oakley, solid

660
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: good pick, eighties Nicks bowls good pick. Yeah. And that's

661
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 1: the proper way to do it. And sometimes there are

662
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: people that sit in there and they actually try to

663
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: They get competitive and they try to win, and that's

664
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: that's when it becomes a problem. And we say, listen, pal,

665
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,760
Speaker 1: don't be rude. Knock that off. Okay, knock that off.

666
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: Terry in England listening and uh, well he's listening to this.

667
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: Eventually when we put it up, he says, when you

668
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: started listening to a m radio, Ben, did you do

669
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: it to be a d xer or just for sports?

670
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: You know what d xer means danny. That that jargon,

671
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: that lingo, that means d xer as I understand, it

672
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: means to try to listen to far away like a

673
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: Ham radio nerd. Almost yeah, exactly that Terry's a Ham

674
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: radio guy like my old man may rest in peace,

675
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,760
Speaker 1: and so I Terry did. That's part of the magic.

676
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: That to me, that's part of the magic. But living

677
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: in the West, I did not Western part of the

678
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: United States. We did not have as many far away

679
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: stations to get. But I've told the story before. I

680
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: as a kid, my mom listened to Art Bell, who

681
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: was on Forever. Actually it was even I think it

682
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: was even Art Bell, but somebody else. And they had

683
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: a commercial for this antenna that would get far away

684
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: AM radio stations at night. And I begged my mom

685
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: for this. What a nerd? What a loser? And my

686
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: mom it was pretty expensive at the time. I don't

687
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 1: remember how much. It was pretty pricey. My mom kept

688
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: reminding me about how expensive it was, but she finally

689
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: got it. I remember you talking about this gadget before.

690
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: What did it look like? It was brown? It was.

691
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 1: It was pretty big. It was like the size of

692
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: it was the size of a laptop. But it was round.

693
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: It was round, you know, like those look like a

694
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: little satellite almost kind of, but it had a knob

695
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: in the middle, some more like rabbit airs. Yeah, I

696
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: mean it was shape. It was round, kind of like

697
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: you know those ring lights, kind of like that. And

698
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: it really worked. Yeah, it actually did work. I was.

699
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: I thought when I first got all this ain't gonna work.

700
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: This is just a cheap plastic thing, and it actually did.

701
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: I don't know the technology behind it, but I got stations,

702
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: you know, living in l A. I got stations in St. George, Utah.

703
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: I got a station from Portland, Oregon. San Francisco comes in.

704
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: There's several stations in San Francisco to come in the

705
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: l A market. Suddenly you were probably listening to Suns

706
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: basketball games. I was. I listened. In fact, I've told

707
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: the story about Al McCoy, the voice of the Suns,

708
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: who was still alive. I had the chance to meet

709
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: him and I told him, I said, beside family in Arizona.

710
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, I told al McCoy

711
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: of this story. When we went to Arizona, I told

712
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: my mom, I said, we got to eat at what

713
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: a burke and she said, we didn't have how why

714
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: would you want to eat? What? Do you don't even

715
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 1: know what that is? I said, well no, But I

716
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: listened to the Son's game on the radio and they

717
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: when the Suns would make a three point shot, Al

718
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: McCoy's call would be what a shot? What a burger?

719
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: That was his his tag, And he told me All

720
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: McCoy told me that that was one of the first

721
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: product placements in the NBA broadcast that hit that kind

722
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: of thing, that they were the first ones to kind

723
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: of do it, and so he got a kick out

724
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: of that story on their jerseys. Yeah, now it's all

725
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,720
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. H And then I got Utah Jazz Games

726
00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: hot Rod Huntley out of St. George, Utah. It was

727
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: a station I got that was a lot of Vegas.

728
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: I listened to the Stardust line that I got my

729
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: gambling fixed, Lee Pete. This old radio legend in Vegas.

730
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,320
Speaker 1: Every Sunday night, kind I think it was tend to

731
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: midnight was the Stardust Line, and they'd give out the

732
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: latest lines for the next week. That was like a

733
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: big deal. You got the lines for the next week

734
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so I could go on and on.

735
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: But did you do any of that, Danny when you

736
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: were literally you were too cool for that. You didn't.

737
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: You weren't doing that. Maybe it was too cool supposedly

738
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: because I was at the hip hop slash Rap and

739
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: we didn't even call it R and B. We call

740
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: it soul. At the time. It was the best in

741
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: hip hop and soul for the nineties, and that station

742
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: was cool. But that same instructor, he was the electronics

743
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: teacher at my high school. Man he would tell the

744
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 1: class at the beginning of the semester, he would say,

745
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: you could either do the book work and bore yourself

746
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 1: to death, or you could get a Ham radio license

747
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: and get an automatic A and A class. I'm not

748
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: doing bookwork. Screw that. So I actually got a technicians

749
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: license and I passed the Advanced Morse Code test to

750
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 1: get an A. Wow. That was always my hang up.

751
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: My dad wanted me to become a Ham radio operator,

752
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: but that damn Morse Code thing, I just was. It

753
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: was hard. I had to take that test three times.

754
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 1: I had to pass the last time I took it,

755
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: and I did. The pressure was on. The trick was

756
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: just staying ahead of yourself because if you fell behind

757
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: a couple of letters, you were screwed. It's like, what

758
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: is it, wheel of fortune. You kind of put things

759
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: together if you just stay on track. So I would

760
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: miss a letter here and there, but you could make

761
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: out what the word is do that Morse code would

762
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: go so fast. Now, I never used this radio license.

763
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: There was no reason or nothing to use it for

764
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: except for that guy's class. He had a set up

765
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: huge radio setups with the antenna on his roof there

766
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: at the school. Yeah, and you know, it was more

767
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: of like the find of Oh my god, I'm talking

768
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: to somebody in Canada. So they would mark the map

769
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: and it was I guess it was cool. It was

770
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: better than doing the bookwork. But yeah, man, that Morse code. Ben.

771
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: I had nightmares about that because it was really hard

772
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,320
Speaker 1: to pass. And they told us that if there was

773
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: ever an emergency, it would become useful to us. Even today.

774
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 1: My dad, you know, just passed away at the beginning

775
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: of this year. He was a Ham radio He was

776
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: in the city he lived in. They had an emergency

777
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: communications team in the Ham Radio group. My dad we

778
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: used to buy. I used to bust my dad's balls

779
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: because he always said, it's could be a big earthquake,

780
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 1: and you know, and you know, he loved Ham radio.

781
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: It was his passion. It was his hobby. And he

782
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: always told me, said, been someday there's gonna be a

783
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: big disaster and everyone's gonna love this hammer. We're gonna

784
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: be the heroes, you know, and then we're gonna say,

785
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna turn to Ham radio. And then because he

786
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: used to teach Ham radio, and I was very upsetting

787
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: because you know, it would be there'd only be a

788
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: couple of people that would sign up for his class,

789
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: and then you know, sometimes they had to cancel the class,

790
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: and so it was very upsetting to him because he

791
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: loved the hobby. But he said he always said, if

792
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: something bad happened, the Ham radio operator is gonna save

793
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: the day. And that was his big shoutouts to Mr

794
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: Hoskins was his name, and my stepdad, we have this

795
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: in common. He was a Ham radio dude, and he

796
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: used to on his hand set, used to do repeater sites.

797
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: Before everybody carried cell phones around, he would make phone

798
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: calls off his little Ham radio. Wow that's pretty cool. Yeah,

799
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: pretty neat. That's pretty neat. Um anyway, thank you, Terry.

800
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Matt, moving man, Matt says, why did

801
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: Danny g abandoned the coveted overnight slot? He says, it's

802
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: moving man, Matt. However, when Danny was on, I was

803
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: still known as Matt from the Cape. So he said, well,

804
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: you got promoted, Danny. That's happened on that right, Yeah,

805
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: for sure. At the time, Jason Martin was given his

806
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: own radio show in Nashville, doing Morning Drive locally, and

807
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: so I got to step into his spot because I

808
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,480
Speaker 1: was already co producing the show and engineering it, but

809
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 1: I got to take over the executive producer role, which

810
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: was a promotion, and the hours were a little bit better,

811
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 1: but I was still waking up at one thirty am

812
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah. That's uh, that's a no go h

813
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: the one thirty wake up call. Yeah that is I'm good.

814
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: I am. I'm good on that, all right. Valls Fan

815
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee writes in that's right, this is

816
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: the last piece of mail we will use it. This

817
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: is it. This is the final one. That's it was

818
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: the last one. This is no more after all right,

819
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: Valls Fan Jimmy says, I'm glad to hear Danny J

820
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: back on the airwaves. Best choice you could make, could

821
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: have made well. Best means as good as all the rest. Anyway,

822
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: for both of you. Have you ever taken a girl

823
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: out on a date and the service was so bad

824
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: you got up and left? M h uh, so I'll

825
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: go first. I don't recall that happening. I have gone

826
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: on dates. I was meeting a date and then she

827
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: bailed out early and I was left. That one sucks.

828
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: I have left a movie early because my now wife

829
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: hated the movie so we had to walk out. But

830
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever left. I've had really bad service. Um,

831
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: but I don't leave. I won't leave a tip, or

832
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 1: I'll leave a two dollar tip or something like that

833
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: if your services. What about you, Danny, anything at a

834
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 1: restaurant on a date where you just bailed out and said,

835
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: let me get the heck out of here. This is

836
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: this is not good. Yeah. Just a few months ago,

837
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: I was with my tender Roni at a diner in

838
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:55,760
Speaker 1: downtown Burbank. In Burbank, the table was sticky, I'm hoping

839
00:47:55,840 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: from syrup, and uh, service was bad, the water cups

840
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: were dirty. It just didn't feel right from the start,

841
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: and I looked at her and I was like, we

842
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,359
Speaker 1: need to leave before we order anything. The waiter, though,

843
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: you could tell he was maybe part owner. The way

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Speaker 1: he wasn't yelling at the staff. It was like he

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Speaker 1: knew we wanted to leave. He could sense it. And

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Speaker 1: so that made the dash hard because he already had

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Speaker 1: his radar on. So I told her, I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna pretend like I take a call, pretended like I

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Speaker 1: followed me and she was laughing, and I'm like, what's

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Speaker 1: so funny, And She's like, oh my god. He totally

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Speaker 1: knew what we were doing. He told me, if you

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Speaker 1: want to leave, just tell me you're leaving. Oh man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So he took it very personal surprise. All Right, it's

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Speaker 1: been fun, Danny, but we've got to run, right. We've

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Speaker 1: got places to go, things to do, people to see.

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Speaker 1: That kind of thing on a Sunday, and I'll be

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Speaker 1: back on the radio tonight. Good luck to your favorite

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Speaker 1: NFL team, thank you? Yes, yes, that's right. Well, my

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Speaker 1: my favorite NFL team is not playing until tomorrow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not yours. I was talking to the listener yours.

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Speaker 1: You finally got better because you played Jacksonville last week.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, and uh, we'll see the Rams will

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Speaker 1: be ramming it all day and ramming it all nights

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Speaker 1: and the value of the sun. Have a wonderful rest

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Speaker 1: of your Sunday, and don't forget send messages. The last

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Speaker 1: mail bag of the year is going to be next weekend,

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Speaker 1: so send your questions in and it's Real fifth hour

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