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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now Sunday. It is back the

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Speaker 1: the playoff games today. But this is a mail bag

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Speaker 1: podcast and yet again not joined by David Gascon. Gagon

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Speaker 1: This is a mailbag podcast, so you know what that means.

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Speaker 1: These are actual questions sent in by actual listeners like yourself.

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Speaker 1: Ben Mallard Show, or the Real Fifth Hour at gmail

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Speaker 1: and he was an intern. You know, you don't spend

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Speaker 1: a lot of time with the interns. And then like bam,

428
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Speaker 1: a couple years later you got the Red Sox job.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell? I crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy,

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Speaker 1: all right? Another question from Pierre. He says, Ben, if

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Speaker 1: you were given the opportunity to vote for the Baseball

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, would you blank a ballot, and then

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Speaker 1: he sent a screenshot here of this scribe who sent

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Speaker 1: an entirely blank ballot. He says, it seems more like

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Speaker 1: a gagon move to me, Yeah, Pierre, I would not

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Speaker 1: I would not do that, although I understand the logic

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Speaker 1: behind it. I mean, and the argument is a compelling

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Speaker 1: one that there doesn't have to be a Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer every year, right that the standard to get in

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. Uh, it should have been the

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Speaker 1: one percent of the Creme della Kreme. It's not like

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Speaker 1: that anymore. The Hall of Fame is a it's like

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Speaker 1: the way I would describe it, it's like an amusement

444
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Speaker 1: park when times are normal, and so it's like, well, no,

445
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Speaker 1: you don't have to be an uh only elitist and

446
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. But it's it's now where they have

447
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Speaker 1: to have a certain number of people in the Hall

448
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Speaker 1: of Fame because it's they've got a business to run.

449
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Speaker 1: They they wanna they wanna become rich and make money

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Speaker 1: and prosper and all that stuff, and so to do that,

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Speaker 1: you have to have a new class in the Hall

452
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Speaker 1: of Fame every year, and you have to have a

453
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Speaker 1: certain number of people Otherwise who's gonna go to the

454
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. You know, it's uninteresting, people would be unmotivated,

455
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Speaker 1: takes a lot of work to plan a trip when

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Speaker 1: times are normal and all that. So so yeah, I

457
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Speaker 1: mean Dion Sanders did it, ran about that a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, about how there should only be you know,

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Speaker 1: a certain percentage of players should get in and that's it,

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Speaker 1: and I agree with And baseball had always been that

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Speaker 1: sport where he had been like that. And then Harold

462
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Speaker 1: Bane's got in the Hall of Fame or Bill Mazeroski

463
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Speaker 1: because of one home run, and it changed. There you go.

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Speaker 1: Chris writes in from Marr Cooke to Iowa. He says,

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Speaker 1: life is short. What life goal or place to visit

466
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Speaker 1: is at the top of your list right now? So

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Speaker 1: you're talking about like a bucket list. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't really have a bucket list. My wife would

469
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Speaker 1: like to travel a lot. I have a feeling that

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Speaker 1: will be doing that in the future. I just want to,

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Speaker 1: you know, a live a good life, hang out with people. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I love and I like and and friends

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Speaker 1: and all that and enjoy as much of it. I

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Speaker 1: love my job, which is cool. So I like doing that,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I would like to travel. It's been

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Speaker 1: a while everyone, you know, with the pandemic and all that,

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Speaker 1: have been able to do stuff. And I really like

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Speaker 1: traveling around America. Like to to check out some of

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Speaker 1: the historic sites around the United States, the National parks,

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Speaker 1: some of the Civil War monument areas, like the ones

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Speaker 1: that haven't been torn down yet. I'm just I'm a

482
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Speaker 1: big fan of American history, so I'd like to check

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Speaker 1: some of that out. Like to go through Canada, that

484
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Speaker 1: would be nice. Maybe a trip to the Bahamas. Uh,

485
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of places. I'd like to get to.

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. I've been the radio there in New Zealand

487
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Speaker 1: for for years. In fact, I just went back on

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Speaker 1: this week. On Friday, I returned. I was off the

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Speaker 1: station I worked for in New Zealand went out of

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Speaker 1: business during the pandemic. So now I'm on a news

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Speaker 1: talk station as a weekly correspondent. So that's a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. I'd like to talk to Well, I talked

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Speaker 1: to him everywhere. I'd like to meet the people I've

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Speaker 1: talked to for years. That would be pretty cool. So

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Speaker 1: that's all. That's all there. Carlos and Houston writes, and

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Speaker 1: we're doing the mail back Carlos, and Houston writes, and

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00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: he says, you had close to a month off. Did

498
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Speaker 1: you eat that steak that the gas can gave you? Know?

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Speaker 1: I did not, Carlos, did not eat the steak still

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Speaker 1: in the freezer you wanted, I can sent it to you.

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00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:46,959
Speaker 1: Then he says, what's the origin story of Tammy in Montanah, yeah, Carlos.

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Speaker 1: As far as Tammy and Montana, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's any amazing story. Tammy has been a loyal minion.

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Speaker 1: She has been a p one fan of the show,

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Speaker 1: and she's just you know, she called in back I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many years ago, but she's been with

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Speaker 1: the show for a long time. She's a bona fide

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Speaker 1: certified p one and she's been very supportive. She does

509
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that nobody knows about, very kind

510
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Speaker 1: things that I know a little bit about that she

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Speaker 1: does not promote um, but she's very concerned. We we

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Speaker 1: have a very eclectic group of people that call the show,

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00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, some of the people that call the

514
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Speaker 1: show or down on their luck and they're living in

515
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Speaker 1: shelters and they're living in in bad situations and they've

516
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Speaker 1: got medical issues, and it's just kind of gravitate to

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Speaker 1: the show because the overnight and and we're there. We

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Speaker 1: we have a rule. You take the Mallard Militia oath

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Speaker 1: and all that and the motto that you know, everyone

520
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: is welcoming every man, woman and child, and doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: your politics or you're whether you're gay or straight or

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Speaker 1: anything like that, whether you're you're bright, or you're stupid,

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Speaker 1: or you've got medical problems. Right, we just we just

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Speaker 1: bust each other's balls. And so anyway, the point of

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Speaker 1: that is Tammy has been been very cool at reaching

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Speaker 1: out like collering James for example. She she's she's really

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Speaker 1: good at tracking tracking these people down, like I don't

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Speaker 1: know if she's a private investigator or not, but she's

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Speaker 1: able to take a little bit of information, just like

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Speaker 1: little clues that certain people mentioned on the radio, and

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Speaker 1: then be able to get ahold of them and help

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Speaker 1: them out if they need some extra help. So so

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Speaker 1: that's my my nutshell reference of the great Tammy in Montana.

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Speaker 1: The other thing about Tammy, she's sneaky mean, sneaky mean,

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Speaker 1: Like I think it was the the Octagon between Tammy

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Speaker 1: and Montana. I think the one I remember is the

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Speaker 1: one with Genie and Medford. If I recall correctly, it

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Speaker 1: all runs together. But but I recall that specifically because

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Speaker 1: it was it was an octagon, and we didn't expect Tammy.

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Speaker 1: You know, Tammy a very very sweet woman, very nice woman,

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Speaker 1: not really feisty at all, and so we just expected

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Speaker 1: her to roll over and play dead, getting the fetal

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Speaker 1: position and not put up any kind of a fight.

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Speaker 1: And she came out throwing these amazing haymakers, right, just

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Speaker 1: amazing haymakers. Uh. And it was it was awesome. She

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Speaker 1: didn't have any kind of fatigue, she didn't get exhausted there,

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Speaker 1: she was prepared, she had done her homework, and she

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Speaker 1: came in there like Donkey Kongs, just crushing everything in

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Speaker 1: the octagon. And it was it was pretty neat. So

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Speaker 1: any wait, all right, next up on the mailbag, uh Vahed,

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Speaker 1: I believe I'm saying that correctly. In the biou in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints Country, he points out, says Mr Miller, question,

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Speaker 1: what is the biggest handyman job each of you did

554
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Speaker 1: or planning on doing it? Okay? So I love the

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Speaker 1: YouTube and I do a lot of cooking stuff off

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Speaker 1: the YouTube. As far as like handyman stuff, I'm not

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Speaker 1: good at it. I have tried some things off YouTube

558
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: and it doesn't quite work for me. But I've I've painted,

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00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: and I've done a few small repairs. I remember there

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00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: was a door, you know those bathroom what do you

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Speaker 1: call the kind of sliding doors that pocket doors? One

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Speaker 1: of those got stuck and locked and I couldn't get

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Speaker 1: it open. It was locked from the inside. I was

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Speaker 1: in the outside, and I went on a YouTube video

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Speaker 1: on how to hack into that, and I was able

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Speaker 1: to do that with I got the device I needed.

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Speaker 1: So but that's does that really count as a handy

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Speaker 1: man job? Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure all right,

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Speaker 1: But he does say, but he says, after a year

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Speaker 1: of questioning myself, I did two bigger rooms. It worked perfect.

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Speaker 1: There you go, whatever it might be, Yes, you can

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Speaker 1: do it. Uh And then for somebody he loves the show,

573
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: But he says, Mr Mallard, do you bring that slap

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Speaker 1: dick in instead of guess? But I don't know what

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00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: slap dick you're talking? Is he calling you a slap

576
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: nick him? And I don't think he knows who you are.

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Speaker 1: I think you must be he must be referencing somebody else. Yeah,

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00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: I seem, I seem. So that's a good term though,

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Speaker 1: slap dick. Can you ever use that term? Plenty of

580
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: times with my friends? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: term you can say on the radio, that's what. Yeah,

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00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: so that's what I was wondering. As soon as you

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Speaker 1: said it, I was like, oh, can you say that?

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean obviously you would know more than me,

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Speaker 1: so well, it's a podcast, you can say it on

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Speaker 1: a pocket. But yes, the terms. I've used it on

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Speaker 1: the radio and Eddie got all like upset, I can't

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00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: believe you said slap dick. But it's actually you know,

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Speaker 1: the origins of the term. You know what the meaning

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00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: of it? I do not know. Let me here it is.

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00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: It is actually an old Texas football term, like a

592
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: coach ripping his players would be like, oh, you're a

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Speaker 1: slap dick. You're a bunch of slap dicks. You know,

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00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: like you're not You're like you're not focused? So what's

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00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: great about that? And I'm really glad that's the origin

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Speaker 1: behind it because I coached high school for six years

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Speaker 1: and I would use that term all the time to

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Speaker 1: the players, but I didn't no idea. That's where it

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00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: stemmed from. There. You go, look at that. That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: What high school did you coach your Belinda? Cool? Yeah,

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00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: you're in high school? What's the map? What's the mascot

602
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: of the mustang? Must Mustangs? And what did you freshman? Sophomore? Varsity? Like?

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Speaker 1: What did they started? My first four or five years

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Speaker 1: mainly j V, and then what you know, obviously helped varsity,

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Speaker 1: and then my last couple of years I was assistant

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Speaker 1: varsity defense coordinator. Do d line in linebackers? Cool? Yeah,

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00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: we're good. We want to CEF And he done the

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00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: sixteen too. It was fun. And why did you stop

609
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: doing it? Because it didn't pay anything? Uh? And I didn't.

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00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't really want to be a teacher.

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00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: I was actually a sub for a year and try

612
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: to test those waters. And I love coaching, but I

613
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: didn't want to be a teacher. That's there was a

614
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: guy one of our old interns in the nineties was

615
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: this guy named Tom. Tom the intern. He's like a

616
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Speaker 1: boardop guy, and he loved coaching high school football like you.

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Speaker 1: He was He working at the radio station coaching football,

618
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: and then he decided to fully go into coaching and

619
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Speaker 1: he became the head coach at the University of Texas.

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Speaker 1: He was just let go a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Tom Herman. Tom Herman was Yeah, Tom Herman worked at

622
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Speaker 1: a radio station I worked at in the nineties and

623
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: he was like a board op intern guy. And then

624
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: he decided he loved coaching and he just dedicated his

625
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Speaker 1: life to it and he moved all over the place

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Speaker 1: to different cities and all that. Yeah, he was going

627
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: to like cal Lutheran out here and uh yeah, then

628
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: he ended up ended up moving around. He was cal

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Speaker 1: Lutherans in the Thousand Oaks out in the Yeah, far,

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Speaker 1: I had no idea at that. I didn't know that

631
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: about him. Yeah, I was really I was really pulling

632
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Speaker 1: for him. Unfortunately it didn't go his way there at Texas.

633
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: He he already got he got sent the sent the

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00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: walking papers. But yeah, that's pretty good though, just to

635
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: get to that job. He made a ton of money too,

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Speaker 1: absolutely on the top notch programs. Obviously, he made He

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Speaker 1: made more money in one year than I probably made

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Speaker 1: my entire career in radio. And then what with his bio,

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Speaker 1: probably twenty million or something, um like, oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's the oah, yeah, he's yeah, he's getting paid for

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Speaker 1: several more several more years for sure, ahead and take off.

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Speaker 1: We'll give you all this money. Okay, yeah, yeah, he

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Speaker 1: did a little He's like he worked a little bit

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Speaker 1: in television, kind of like an intern. But he was

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Speaker 1: also behind the scenes intern guy producer at Extra Sports

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Speaker 1: eleven fifty, the l a version of the of the

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Speaker 1: station back in the day. So and he'll he'll get

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of coaching. That gotta be in coaching

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Speaker 1: the rest of his life. He's not he's not that

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Speaker 1: old guy. I think he's I guess he's getting older.

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Speaker 1: He's he's a mid forties. But he'll coach like I

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Speaker 1: don't twenty years if he wants, oh yeah, absolutely an

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Speaker 1: assistant somewhere. Yeah, if you know he's not a head

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Speaker 1: coaching somewhere else at some point. Yeah, you know, when

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Speaker 1: you get in that racket, it's the good old boys network.

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Speaker 1: He just keep getting gigs, you know. Yeah. Yeah, Well

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Speaker 1: he's seen like as Steven Starcasion. I mean, I know,

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Speaker 1: from getting fired for being alcoholic and I'm being speaking

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Speaker 1: of Texas. Right, that's right, he's the guy who replaced herman. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions of

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Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven

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Speaker 1: pm Pacific. All right, marking Ottawa writes in he says, Hey, Ben,

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Speaker 1: what is your favorite part of the chicken eat? Is

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Speaker 1: it the wing, the thigh, the breast, the leg and

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Speaker 1: cooked which way? Well, I'm a breast man. Uh that's

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Speaker 1: a drop. I would say anything fried. I like the

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Speaker 1: chicken strips are my favorite meal. So fried chicken is amazing.

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Speaker 1: But I've eaten more grilled chicken recently, but I preferred fried.

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Speaker 1: R J in San Antonio, long time p one of

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Speaker 1: the Mallard Show says, uh, see here go to flavor

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Speaker 1: of chicken strips besides raising canes. So I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you mean flavor or what you said flavor. I

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Speaker 1: think you mean other chicken strips I'll eat other than

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Speaker 1: raising canes. That's how I'm interpreting the question. I think

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Speaker 1: that's what you implied. So I would say Popeye's chicken

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Speaker 1: strips pretty good. I've heard amazing things this placed. It's

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Speaker 1: a Midwestern chain called Culver's. I've never been there, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. The gold standard, the

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Speaker 1: magnum opus, right, the tore the force of the chicken

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Speaker 1: strip was this place called DULs in Burbank, right across

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Speaker 1: the street from Warner Brothers. And when I worked, I

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Speaker 1: worked at a radio station across the street. We used

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Speaker 1: to go there when I was, you know, single guy,

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Speaker 1: nobody would date me. I would go there five nights

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Speaker 1: a week at happy hour and eat chicken strips and

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Speaker 1: it was awesome. But that place is closed. And then

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Speaker 1: I would also say the I think they're called chicken

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Speaker 1: crispers at Chili's pretty good. Have you ever had those?

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Speaker 1: You're a chicken strip guy. Yeah, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: I've had those ones, though, but you have you haven't

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Speaker 1: had the Chili's chicken cristpers, I don't know. Not pretty good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I do like chili So, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe if I could never go there again, I'll definitely

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Speaker 1: get them. Yeah, you should get them their solid Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But raising Keynes is there, Yeah, that's the that's the

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Speaker 1: top Ali in the Valley of the Sun. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: and he says he is COVID negative. He had the

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Speaker 1: COVID like you Kevin did in Phoenix, and he's over it. Now.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Lee, Welcome, Welcome to the club there. Eventually we'll

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Speaker 1: all be in apparently, uh Lee, And the Valley of

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Speaker 1: the Sun says, did you have a toy collection or

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Speaker 1: some other collection when you were growing up? And what

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Speaker 1: is it or what is it right now? Yeah? Lee,

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Speaker 1: I collected baseball cards and they did that a lot

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Speaker 1: when I was a kid. And by the way, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm letting go. I'm gonna I'm gonna get rid of

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Speaker 1: the baseball card. So if anybody wants my yeah, I

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Speaker 1: want to make a couple of bucks if I can

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Speaker 1: off it. So if anybody knows how I can sell

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Speaker 1: the cards make some money without having to go to

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Speaker 1: a card show because all of those have been canceled.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I have a fair amount from what I was.

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Speaker 1: I was doing some research and it seems like the

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Speaker 1: ones that are worth the most money are actually the

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Speaker 1: basketball cards, which is very odd because I was looked

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Speaker 1: at as the biggest heathen and like I was like

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Speaker 1: I was an ogre because I collected basketball cards and

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Speaker 1: everyone was in like baseball cards and I liked the

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Speaker 1: basketball cards, and I was like, what are you doing

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Speaker 1: while are you collecting the basketball cars? Nobody cares about

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Speaker 1: basketball cards? And it was like, but now because nobody

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Speaker 1: cared about them, they're actually worth a decent amount of money,

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Speaker 1: which is which is interesting to me. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: gotta get rid of a lot of that stuff. My

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Speaker 1: my dad collected stamps because his dad collected stamps, and

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Speaker 1: he collected some coins. But I haven't really gone through

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Speaker 1: all that. There's a lot of stuff that I'm still

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Speaker 1: That's why I've been able to do Benny versus the Penny.

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Speaker 1: So I'm still going through through a lot of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Patricia in Vegas now she's she's a p one. She's

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Speaker 1: listening for more than fifteen years. In fact, that Patricia,

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Speaker 1: you were back in in the northeast, right, you were

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Speaker 1: in the Boston area, I believe, I think when you

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Speaker 1: started listening to the show. She's referencing this picture, which

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Speaker 1: is on the Facebook page. More of a visual thing

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Speaker 1: than an audio thing. Ostrich Aunt sent this in. She says,

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Speaker 1: why is the cow in the picture wearing your pj's. Alright,

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Speaker 1: well let me answer that, Patricia. Listen you never question art. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's like that, Andy. I love Andy Warhol. Andy warhol quotes.

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Speaker 1: I use those a lot. He's had a lot of

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Speaker 1: good lines. He passed away a long time ago to

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Speaker 1: young age. But Andy Warhol, as he pointed out, anything

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Speaker 1: and everything can be art. So even a cow laying

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Speaker 1: down wearing pajamas art uh. And then also one of

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Speaker 1: Andy Warhol's lines is that art is never finished. It's

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Speaker 1: it's only abandoned. So Ostrich Chant probably got busy and

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Speaker 1: he didn't write it the way you wanted and all that.

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Speaker 1: Why why do you contact him? He's on Twitter. He's

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Speaker 1: a good dude. He's a big stud writer. There an

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Speaker 1: artist in Washington, d C. All right, last one on

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Speaker 1: the mailback Glenn from Carmichael. Boy, that's a beautiful place

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Speaker 1: on God's Green Marthe says, Ben, do you support Barry

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Speaker 1: Bonds entering the Baseball Hall of Fame? Well, that's a

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Speaker 1: very sporty question to end, Glenn. But I will I

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Speaker 1: will take the bait. I will answer the question. First

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Speaker 1: of all, for a long time I did not. I

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Speaker 1: died on the mountain that Bonds and all those steroid

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Speaker 1: guys should not be in the Hall. Of Fame. No no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. But then I had an epiphany. All right,

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Speaker 1: I had a come to Jesus moment with the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. And the issue is this. When I was

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Speaker 1: covering baseball games in the nineties, I was relatively aware

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Speaker 1: of a few guys that were doing the steroids that

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Speaker 1: I I knew beyond a reasonable doubt. And since then

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Speaker 1: I've learned from other people, uh things about certain players.

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Speaker 1: When those guys started getting in the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 1: I changed my position. I evolved. I said, listen, you're

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Speaker 1: telling me that Bonds can't get in and Clemens can't

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Speaker 1: get in because they did steroids. But people that we

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Speaker 1: suspected steroids, like Jeff Bagwell or Pudge Rodriguez or Mike Piazza,

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Speaker 1: those guys can get in. Like what are we doing here?

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Speaker 1: Like that? The whole selective enforcement thing rubbed me the

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Speaker 1: wrong way. So my position. I did monologues in this

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Speaker 1: back when this was a big hot button issue, back

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Speaker 1: in the early two thousand's. Other but none of these

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Speaker 1: guys are ever gonna get in. But since you started

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Speaker 1: letting them in the open the floodgates, let them all in.

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Speaker 1: Let's get it's make it like Ringling Brothers and Barnum

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00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: and Bailey Circus, and just make it the big Top

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00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: back in the day, and they bringing the elephants and

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Speaker 1: bringing the donkey's in the clown car. And you're a

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Speaker 1: hall of famer. You're a hall of famer. Everybody is

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Speaker 1: a hall of famer, all right. That is it. Have

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Speaker 1: a wonderful rest of your Sunday. Hopefully you are enjoying

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Speaker 1: or have enjoyed, depending on when you're listening to this,

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Speaker 1: the a f C and NFC championship games. And if

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Speaker 1: you listen to this after those games are over, you

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Speaker 1: already know who's in the Super Bowl. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about all that on the radio show tonight or tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: depending on how you look at it. Eleven pm eleven

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Speaker 1: pm in the West on Sunday night, and that is

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Speaker 1: very early two am in the East, two am in

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Speaker 1: the East on Monday. We catch and thank you Kevin,

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Speaker 1: by the way, good job this weekend, appreciate it. Thank you, Ben.

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Speaker 1: I had a good time. And anytime you know you

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Speaker 1: want to replace Gagan, just let me know. Can you

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00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: come here next week and the week after and the

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Speaker 1: week after that and if you wanna, are you Twitter?

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Speaker 1: Can people find you on Twitter if they want to

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Speaker 1: say hello and they either praise you or rip you? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: do either or I am on Twitter at k V

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Speaker 1: as in Victor O'Connell O C O N N E

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Speaker 1: L L. It's k V O'Connell on Twitter. Not too active,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I got to be there for work.

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Speaker 1: So if you need if you're in l A and

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Speaker 1: you need your air conditioning fixed, O'Connell heating there you

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Speaker 1: go check it out. All right, all right, thank you Kevin,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks Ben