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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes

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Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He

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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of Hot takes break free for something special.

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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler starts right now.

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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere.

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Speaker 3: The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio

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Speaker 3: from the Malar Podcast studio deep in the north Woods

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Speaker 3: and Danny at a secret, undisclosed location as we are

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Speaker 3: hanging out together all weekend long. I'm on drugs right now, man,

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Speaker 3: bringing the razmataz. Danny, you were bringing the rasmut as

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Speaker 3: we flap our gums for as long as they will

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Speaker 3: allow us to.

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Speaker 1: Flap our gums.

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Speaker 3: And this being the Friday podcast, it's kind of a

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Speaker 3: big day, Nanny, It's kind of you probably don't think

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Speaker 3: it's a big day. It's like, well, today's the eighth

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Speaker 3: day of September. What's so special about that? Right?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's no holiday today, right, Oh?

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Speaker 4: I know what the special occasion is? What would that

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Speaker 1: That's right, it's all about me. No, well kind of.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know where it's going to be on,

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Speaker 3: It's really a great well, it's kind of a cool day.

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Speaker 3: It's also a little bit nerve racking. So this podcast

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Speaker 3: Like all this random stuff. So we're going to dedicate

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Speaker 3: the bulk of this Friday podcast to that. And then Dandy,

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Speaker 3: obviously you're here, and so if there's anything that I

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Speaker 1: You're like the spice guy.

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Speaker 3: You're the spice guy.

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Speaker 4: I'm like your storytelling referee.

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Speaker 4: if Looney ever gets on your nerves, which I think

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Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, I have had many people say, well, what

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Speaker 3: What about you know, we got to get Danny G

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Speaker 3: And I've done this for a long time and it's

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Speaker 3: Nobody else has this content, Danny, that we are about

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Speaker 3: I'm in command making of a regional cable television NFL

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Speaker 4: Danny, I have yo, Ben, that poor editor. You could

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Speaker 4: barely fit Benny Versus the Penny into an hour in

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Speaker 3: It's a great question, Danny, and so yes. In fact,

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Speaker 3: I had my ribbi steak prepared.

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Speaker 3: I have a side of fries? So that was the

437
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Speaker 3: meals that did so. Again, just to recaps, I mentioned

438
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Speaker 3: CompuBox stats, Crackhead Bob hours, Crackhead Ben two meals, four hours,

439
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Speaker 3: network radio, five hundred stations, several meetings, tape the TV show.

440
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Speaker 3: First time I've ever done that to actually be broadcast.

441
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Speaker 3: By the time I got home, it was two PM

442
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Speaker 3: and I was awake for over twenty five hours.

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Speaker 1: Take that for data.

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Speaker 3: At one point during the production for Benny Versus Penny,

445
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Speaker 3: John pulled me aside and gave me like, hey, come on,

446
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Speaker 3: we need more energy, man. I was I was fading

447
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Speaker 3: a little bit. I'm not gonna lie, Danny, I was

448
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Speaker 3: fading a little bit.

449
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Speaker 1: I mean I was. I was not quite.

450
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Speaker 3: I had good energy at the start, but by the

451
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Speaker 3: time we were finishing up, I was like, whoa man,

452
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Speaker 3: But I did complete the Malor Marathon.

453
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Speaker 4: It was like your corner man, did he slap you around?

454
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I told him. I said, that's great because

455
00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 3: he gave me a pep talk. You know, He's like, listen,

456
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 3: you know, here's what And the people at NBC have

457
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 3: been great, And the one thing that I'm most excited

458
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 3: about about this TV show is you know how you

459
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Speaker 3: do TV, Danny, and you see people on TV and

460
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 3: they're all buttoned up, you know, they're all serious because

461
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,200
Speaker 3: you're on TV and you.

462
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: Gotta act different.

463
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Speaker 3: And when I first started doing some pilots for the show,

464
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Speaker 3: I kind of acted like that. And and Bill, one

465
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Speaker 3: of the big guys who's a big supporter of mine

466
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 3: at NBC, he said, listen, we want you because of

467
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Speaker 3: the what you do on the radio. That's what we want.

468
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 3: That's the guy we want. We don't want the guy.

469
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Speaker 3: You don't want to buttoned up.

470
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Speaker 1: Guy and all that.

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Speaker 3: You know, if the stuff you say on the radio

472
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Speaker 3: and all that, we you know, goofing on Kyler Murray

473
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Speaker 3: or whatever, that's what we want. We don't want, you know.

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Speaker 1: Buttoned up guy.

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Speaker 4: Last time, Like the last time you were on NBC,

476
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Speaker 4: you were too like serious.

477
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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I was like news guy. I was like

478
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Speaker 1: I was Ryle's having their problems on the road. I'm

479
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Speaker 1: Ben Mallik.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So they were very cool, and I was like, Okay,

481
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Speaker 3: you're gonna let you know as long as I I'm

482
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 3: not going to get in trouble for this. And they said, yeah,

483
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 3: that's what we want. So I said, okay, So hopefully

484
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 3: that comes across you guys. Have to let me know

485
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Speaker 3: if I'm buttoned up Bennie on Bennie Versus the Penny,

486
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 3: if you guys get a chance to watch it today

487
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 3: or Saturday or you know, which is obviously tomorrow and

488
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Speaker 3: then Sunday morning, so we'll see.

489
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Speaker 1: But I was I felt like I was letting it

490
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Speaker 1: rip pretty good.

491
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Speaker 3: I was kind of doing doing what I do late

492
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Speaker 3: night as much as you can, and you can't go

493
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Speaker 3: certain things. We can say it three in the morning

494
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Speaker 3: that we can't say uh yeah during the day.

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Speaker 1: But that's just the way the way of world.

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Speaker 3: So that was the maiden voyage of Bennie Versus the Penny.

497
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Speaker 3: That was That was how it went, and it's going

498
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 3: to be this way every week we are doing original

499
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Speaker 3: TV shows. Unless no one watches and the show gets canceled,

500
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Speaker 3: we are scheduled to do the show all the way

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Speaker 3: through the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 4: By the time it was said and done. How long

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Speaker 4: did it take to tape the maiden voyage.

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Speaker 3: Let's just say the radio show that I do took

505
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Speaker 3: less time. The overnight show takes less time than this day.

506
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 3: But the good see, because we had so many moving parts.

507
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 3: It was like spinning plates. We are told that within

508
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks it'll be real short, but because

509
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 3: we had to make sure everything was working and all

510
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Speaker 3: that that it took a little longer.

511
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Speaker 4: So yeah, so you get into a groove and cut

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Speaker 4: that time down in half.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's really, as Looney says, the fundamentals, the

514
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 3: big fundamental you gotta you know, the fundamentals are a

515
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Speaker 3: little different. There's a little technical stuff that I've obviously

516
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Speaker 3: used to radio.

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Speaker 1: We're radio guys, Danny, that's what we do with the radio,

518
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Speaker 1: and it's.

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Speaker 3: A little different. In television. There's certainly more people involved.

520
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Speaker 3: And one of the things I've all always liked about

521
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 3: radio is that it's just a couple of people. That's it.

522
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 3: You know, it's just you and the microphone and a

523
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 3: couple of people with you, and that's it. But in

524
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 3: television it's a much bigger deal, and there's a lot

525
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:18,080
Speaker 3: of people who are directing, producing, rolling video and sound

526
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 3: and all that stuff.

527
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Speaker 1: But it's exciting. It's a whole new world.

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Speaker 3: It's been an education and I'm very grateful that they

529
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 3: wanted this, and hopefully it's good and people like it

530
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 3: and you know, we could do some more different things

531
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Speaker 3: down the line and all that. So we'll see where

532
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Speaker 3: it leads. But even if it is only this season,

533
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 3: I will be eternally grateful. But hopefully it'll go ten years, Danny,

534
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:42,960
Speaker 3: and then I can retire and you know, I'll be good.

535
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 3: But who knows, who the heck knows. We'll get out

536
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 3: on that. Thank you guys. And again, if you're wondering, well,

537
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 3: you've talked about the show, but where's the show? It

538
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 3: would be what's up with that? Yeah, so I'm gonna

539
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 3: tell you what I know. And this, this might have changed,

540
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 3: This might have changed. I probably should have led with this.

541
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 3: It's a bad job by me, but what the hell.

542
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 3: So the way this works, the show is definitely one

543
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 3: hundred percent locked in on all of the NBC owned

544
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 3: and operated stations, which is NBC Sports Boston, Chicago, San Francisco.

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00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 3: I believe they run a station in Washington, d C.

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00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 3: So we'll be on there, and we'll also be on

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Speaker 3: New York on SNY, which is the Mets affiliate.

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Speaker 1: We are supposed to.

549
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 3: Be on in Los Angeles on Sportsnet LA, which is

550
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 3: the Dodger station. We are supposed to be on Peacock,

551
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 3: although I'm told some of this stuff might be delayed

552
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 3: to week two, so I'm not sure exactly. I have

553
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 3: no idea. Much like the radio show, Danny Wright, the show,

554
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 3: we don't know where it goes, and it goes all

555
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 3: over the place, and we just kind of do the

556
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Speaker 3: thing and.

557
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 4: Provide the content and the world lets us know where

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00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 4: they're listening or viewing it.

559
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you do happen to watch the show,

560
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 3: if you happen to see the show, let us know,

561
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 3: let us know how it goes. I am such a

562
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 3: radio loser. Have a great rest of your Friday. Thank you,

563
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you. And we've got a full weekend

564
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 3: of podcasting. Danny, are you prepared for the weekend ahead? Here?

565
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 4: I'm ready.

566
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 3: All right, we'll let it rip. And thank you in

567
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 3: advance for listening to this. I guess that would not

568
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 3: really be advanced, Danny, right, because you've already listened, so

569
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 3: I don't have to say in advance thank you for listening, okay,

570
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 3: And thank you in advance for trying to find the

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00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 3: TV show. I know it is all on also Roku,

572
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 3: which is kind of pricey, but if you have Roku,

573
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 3: you're going to get Benny versus the Penny. It's on there.

574
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 3: It's part of their NBC Sports package or they have

575
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 3: the affiliates.

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00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: You got anything going? Oh you're working? Is it double

577
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: dip day for them?

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00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 4: Oh? Man, it's yeah. It's a busy day, but a

579
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 4: good one because it's Friday. So I'll go in at

580
00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 4: two pm on the West coast and that's five pm

581
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 4: on the East side, and that's for the Friday Fun

582
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Speaker 4: Friday Show for Covino and Rich as we react to

583
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 4: the Chiefs losing the opener last night against the Lions.

584
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: So, my friend Bob does radio.

586
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Speaker 3: One of my good radio friends, Bob Fesco, does a

587
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 3: morning show in Kansas City, and I was busting his chops.

588
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 3: I sent Bob the message. Actually, just this morning I

589
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 3: sent him the message. I said, here are your topics

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Speaker 3: for today in Kansas City Sports Radio. A. Andy Reid

591
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 3: is on the hot seat. B Patrick Maholmes has turned

592
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 3: into a pumpkin. He's lost his way. C should the

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Speaker 3: Chiefs now tank for the number one pick to get

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Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. I tossed that out, d how much would

595
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 3: it cost to acquire reacquire Tyreek kill from the Dolphins. Uh.

596
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 3: And then E was should Kadarius Tony be given a

597
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 3: plane ticket or a greyhound bus ticket out of Kansas City?

598
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 3: Those were my my tops that that Kadarius Tony game

599
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 3: last night has to be one of the single worst

600
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 3: games ever in the history of the NFL by a

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Speaker 3: wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: And that is not hyperbole, Danny. That is not like, oh,

603
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Speaker 1: you're just saying that you don't really believe that. No,

604
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Speaker 1: I believe that.

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Speaker 3: I my got the stat line on that was unbelievably bad.

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Speaker 1: It was already he finished.

607
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 3: He had one receiving yard, negative one rushing yard, four

608
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Speaker 3: drop passes, one of those pick six, which is gave

609
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 3: the Lions seven points in Kansas City, lost by one.

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Speaker 4: As a Raiders fan, I have to compliment him on

611
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 4: his performance. Great job, mister Tony. I hope he becomes

612
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 4: the Chiefs WR one.

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00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the way he played there, he should be

614
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,239
Speaker 3: should be working for Uber or something like that.

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Speaker 1: My gut, all right, we'll get out, Thank you all.

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Speaker 3: We'll get you next time.

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Speaker 4: Later, skater got a murder. I gotta go