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Speaker 1: poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break

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Speaker 1: free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller

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Speaker 1: starts right now in the air everywhere, back at it

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday. It is the Fifth Hour Podcast. As

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Speaker 1: reach the vast power of the I Heart network of podcast.

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Speaker 1: Wherever you get your podcast, you obviously found the podcast,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's available everywhere. It's sensory overload with this podcast,

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Speaker 1: and we are glad to have you. A long yere

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Speaker 1: a good conversation yesterday with Michael McCarthy. I enjoyed that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you enjoyed that. But as a

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Speaker 1: But we are joined now again this week. Somehow there

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Speaker 1: his ignorance, as he is blind and deaf, to all

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Speaker 1: of these questions. All right, Uh. New survey asked people

422
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Speaker 1: to name the one thing in their home that does

423
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: not work, and this was the most common answer. What

424
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: is it, I'm gonna say a clock clock, right, primitive

425
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:18,199
Speaker 1: answer by you. That is incorrect. It's incorrect. This is

426
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,719
Speaker 1: this does not work at the Mallard mansion. By the way,

427
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: this is also broken to the Mallard mansion. It is

428
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: an ice maker, yea, the ice maker and the refrigerator.

429
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,200
Speaker 1: And I love a nice cool glass of water. I

430
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: drink a lot of water, and I like my ice

431
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,600
Speaker 1: in my water. But we what I've had to do

432
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: is I a couple of years ago, I got those

433
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Speaker 1: ice trays because the ice machine stopped working. It's and

434
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: and so I just used the ice and the trays.

435
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: But you know, you actually burned calaries when you drink

436
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,920
Speaker 1: cold water. Yeah, same thing with taking a cold shower.

437
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,760
Speaker 1: I don't do cold showers, but I do the cold water.

438
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 1: I like the cold water there. But the ice maker,

439
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,480
Speaker 1: that's interesting. It's been over a year, right that it

440
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: hasn't worked for me. Yeah. Uh, the ice maker has

441
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: been broken for like two years. Yeah, it's been and

442
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: we tried to fix it a couple of times. It's

443
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: like you go on YouTube and you gotta get like

444
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: a blow dryer, and you've got it because there's ice

445
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: on the back of the ice maker and you've gotta

446
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,640
Speaker 1: it jams the thing up, and so then you you think, well,

447
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: why would that matter because it's an ice maker. Shouldn't

448
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: there be ice on an ice maker? And no, you

449
00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 1: can't have it there because that's a problem. So you

450
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 1: gotta blow the hot air in. But then that you've

451
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: got to leave the refrigerator open, so then you expose

452
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: the food to the warmness, and then the fridge starts

453
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: making sounds and buzzing and all that because it's been

454
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Speaker 1: open for too long. And then when you finally get

455
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Speaker 1: the ice off the thing, then all your food's expired

456
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 1: and gone bad and starting to smell, and so it's

457
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 1: a bad situation, all right. Moving on, A gambling obsession

458
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: is responsible for this food invention. Wait repeat that one

459
00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: more time. A gambling obsession is responsible for this food invention.

460
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 1: Now this goes back many, many years, but one of

461
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: the most popular foods over hundreds of years was actually

462
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 1: invented because of an obsessive gambler. Come on. You should

463
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: know this story. Come on, come on, chop top. Yeah,

464
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: I don't know pizza. No. Have you ever heard of

465
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Speaker 1: the fourth Earl of Sandwich John Montagu? I think it's

466
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Speaker 1: how you say the name. But this is in the

467
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: seventeen hundreds in England. The guy was such a degenerate gambler. Okay,

468
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 1: the legend has been confirmed by food historians. This guy

469
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: was such a lover of gambling. He did not want

470
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Speaker 1: to get off the card table. He would spend hours,

471
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Speaker 1: this is in the seventeen hundreds gambling my kind of

472
00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: guy here, and he would he would binge for hours

473
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: and hours. But he also wanted to eat, so he

474
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Speaker 1: told the house cook, Being the Earl of Sandwich, he

475
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Speaker 1: told the house cook to to bring him something he

476
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: could eat without getting up from the table, and the

477
00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: sandwich was born. Now, there is a conspiracy theory that

478
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: I read that the Earl of Sandwich had actually gone

479
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: to Greece and travel degrees and seeing that they had

480
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: kind of a you know, kind of a version of

481
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: the sandwich, the Greek version, and he actually advised the

482
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Speaker 1: cook to make something like that. But some the great

483
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 1: things we all know, Earl of you don't. But we

484
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: most of us know the earl of sandwich story. We

485
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: have no idea who the actual person, the peon in

486
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,800
Speaker 1: the kitchen, who actually made the sandwich, the first sandwich,

487
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: We have no idea who that is. But it was

488
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Speaker 1: because of gambling. So if you enjoy sandwiches, you should

489
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: thank gamblers. Interesting, all right. A new report says shoplifting

490
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: from grocery stores increased last year. The thieves took this

491
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: item more than anything else. What is it? Um, you

492
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: don't go to Walmart west of the four or five.

493
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: You don't go to Walmart. That's true. Below water, bottled water. No,

494
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: this is odd to me. I guess it makes sense, though,

495
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: raw meat, How would you shoplift that? Though? Yeah, you

496
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,439
Speaker 1: put it in a crevice in your body. They're a

497
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: nice rip by shove it up. You took us. I

498
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: just think with bottled water, you can get the you

499
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: get all those the packs, you can put it underneath

500
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: the cart and then never just show it to the cashier. Yeah,

501
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: I'm surprised there's not tons of shoplifting. I go to

502
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: Walmart and they have the self checkout thing, and like,

503
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 1: I know, there's cameras everywhere, but how do they not

504
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: like if you're buying something, you know you can buy

505
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: two or three items and then sneak a fourth thing. Yeah, well,

506
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: don't forget. You can get away with all that stuff

507
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 1: as long as it's less than a certain dollar. Mount

508
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: in San Francisco, so or l a with your your

509
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: is it your uncle? That's the district the terms no

510
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: relation now alright, justin and Cincinnati said, you guys related,

511
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: he's a fing idiot. You wanna go you wanna go

512
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: on with that? Alright? U. A high school senior created

513
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: this piece of artwork. It's part of Americana that you

514
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: see nearly every day. A billboard. No, the current design

515
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: of the United States flag. A high school senior created

516
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: what is our flag? Will be that flag until President

517
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 1: Biden adds what Puerto Rico? And who else is a Cuba?

518
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: That DC? There you go DC, Yeah, alright gets canceled allogether. Yeah.

519
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: I think we should just like take all of North America.

520
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,239
Speaker 1: Should like we could take Canada, Mexico, make it all

521
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: part of America. What do you say, guess on the

522
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: entire reason? Well, all of hon Doris will make Hondoras

523
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: part of America. How about that? Boy, No, I can't

524
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 1: do it. Given enough time, you know what's gonna happen.

525
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: Given enough time, we won't be around. But a recent

526
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: survey says roughly one in five people keep one of

527
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: these at work, but not at home. Only at work,

528
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: not at home. What is it? Um? Do do do

529
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: do do do do do do do do do do

530
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: do do do do don daily planner? All right? No? Uh?

531
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: Candy dish candy dish. Interesting. Yeah. When I had my

532
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: very brief television career at the fledgling NBC Sports Network,

533
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: which is going out of business because they got rid

534
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: of me, they had massive piles of candy all over

535
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: the NBC Sports building in Stanford, connecticutmongous, humongous battle piles

536
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: of candy, right, And I asked one of the senior

537
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: producers at NBC. I said, why, I lost a lot

538
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: of weight and you are really tempting me here because

539
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: I'm sitting around. You know. We had to stay for

540
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: the West Coast Games to end and tape the show

541
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: and it was a big pain in the ass. And

542
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: I said, what what are you doing to me? I'm

543
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: gonna get fat again because you've got candy everywhere? And

544
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: he explained to me that they did that intentionally because

545
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: when people did have to stick around there a long

546
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: time and wait for games, it was a lot of

547
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: downtime wait for games to end, and so the candy

548
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: gave him with sugar rush and kept people away good.

549
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: So that's why they had the candy all over the place,

550
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: a little snicker bars and all kinds of crampings. And

551
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: I did actually gain some weight during that time. Was

552
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: double fist and butter fingers. You know, I was going

553
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: for it. It was. It was good, all right. Uh,

554
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: when I noticed at Fox Sports Radio they do not

555
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: leave piles of candy around the building. Now, they don't

556
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: leave anything around here. Yeah, when it comes to our

557
00:30:54,520 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: morning routine of us do this smoke a cigarette? Uh? No,

558
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: it lay close out the night before. Ever you ever

559
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: do that? No? Never, I did. My mind when I

560
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: was a kid. My mom would do that when I

561
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: was young, But I don't never I've ever done that.

562
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 1: I go in there and like, I have no no

563
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: plan as you know, and I'm a pretty good fashion

564
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: Easta as you know, guesscount, but I don't really plan

565
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: it out. You have a hat and you have pajamas.

566
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: That's about the gist of the malory attire during the

567
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: work week. Yeah, you don't need to be jealous. There's fine.

568
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: Someday maybe you'll become important. Could happen important to certain people,

569
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: your parents, I'm sure, all right. A new survey says

570
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: nearly one in three adults have not tried a new

571
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: one of these products in the last five years. They

572
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: just keep using the same product for five years. What

573
00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: is it? Something associated with the summer? The summer? Um?

574
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: What the summer? I don't know. That's be a bathing suit. Okay, now,

575
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm happy to report my wife believes in buying new

576
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: bathing suits every year. So I don't know, I don't know.

577
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: She just like you, you know, you gotta look good

578
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: for the summer. Bathing suits are expensive too. Well, my

579
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: father in law has a pool, so we spent a

580
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: lot of time at his house during the summer and

581
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: with my sister in law, you know, the in law

582
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: as were hanging out. We all get along. We have

583
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: a good time. We have fun, fun under the sun. Yeah,

584
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: I'm I'm laying in the pool like a beached you know,

585
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: beached whale and uh, you know, doing the whole thing.

586
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: So it's fun. Alright, majority of people haven't changed this

587
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: in three or more years. What is it? I feel

588
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: like you've asked that before. Okay, then you should get

589
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: it right right away. I think go. I think what

590
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: I said last week was toothbrush is we didn't have

591
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: this last um maybe two weeks ago. But um, they

592
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: haven't changed it in three or four years, three years,

593
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: three years, three or more years? Um, their job. No,

594
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: the voicemail message on there, Yeah, you did ask that

595
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: last did Yeah. I wasn't listening. Uh, and you didn't

596
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: even remember. This makes it you're even You're looking even

597
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: worse than I. That's a bad job by you. You

598
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: know you said that last week, but you didn't even Oh, Mike,

599
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't listening. Alright. Let's see a new report says

600
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: it takes an average American about four months to finish

601
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: one of these What is it? Four months to finish these?

602
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: A book? Two? Toothpaste? Wait? Wait, what the hell? You

603
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: asked this like you said this last week too. No,

604
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: I did not, you did. I did not. I had

605
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: a different toothpaste question. But I did not have four

606
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 1: months to finish a two with toothpaste. I had no,

607
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: I have no idea until I saw this. How dare

608
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: you accuse me of repeating content here? And you're some

609
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: of your colleagues are rubbing off on you. All right,

610
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: over half of all Americans who sell their home take

611
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: these with them when they move. Uh, the house keys,

612
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: light bulbs. How fucking cheap are you if you're taking

613
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,320
Speaker 1: light bulbs when you move? Come on, it's a joke.

614
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Guess we got it. We got

615
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,439
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Gotta leave a lot of good time

616
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: for that Sunday mail bag. So download this podcast, support

617
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 1: our podcast, review our podcast, Tell a friend, We thank you,

618
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: We thank you. And even though we have corporate overlords,

619
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: this is like the pirate ship. They kind of you know,

620
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: they were in the shadows of these parts. So anyway,

621
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: have a great Saturday, Enjoy the baseball, the basketball, the

622
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: Final Four, the whole thing. We got. We got content

623
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Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday Gascon. How about that unbelievable We'll be

624
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: back with that. We'll catch you then,