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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 sol 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 2: house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The

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Speaker 2: Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now.

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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere, hanging out in the podcast dojo.

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Speaker 1: We are honored to have you as we do this

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Speaker 1: mindless work. Well it's actually not mindless work when you

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Speaker 1: think about it's the Fifth Hour with Ben Mahler and

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Speaker 1: Danny G. But you already knew that. And my man

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Speaker 1: Danny G right there hanging out with me. He's on

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Speaker 1: with Covino and Rich all week. I do, of course

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Speaker 1: the Overnight Show, the Ben Maller Show, and Danny. If

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Speaker 1: you're new to the podcast, if you weren't listening years ago,

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Speaker 1: Danny used to work on the show. He was my

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Speaker 1: right hand man for several years on the Overnight Show,

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Speaker 1: and then he moved on. We're with Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. When's that Animal Thunderdome coming. Do

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Speaker 1: we have a date on the Animal Thunderdome.

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Speaker 3: I got a text from Clay Travis last week. I'm

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Speaker 3: sure that'll solve it. Let me see, let me pull

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Speaker 3: it up on my phone. I'll tell you exactly what

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Speaker 3: he wrote here. Where are you there? It is? He

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Speaker 3: sent me a story of an alligator that weighed eight

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Speaker 3: So he sent that link and he said, we are

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Speaker 1: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean, you know that's been i'mgoing for

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Speaker 1: Speaking of alligators, I talked about this on the Overnight

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Speaker 1: Disgusting looking like the image was really over the top,

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Speaker 1: and and the ironic things they were not. They're not

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Speaker 1: playing the Florida Gators today, you know, in the college

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Speaker 1: But still they decided the great minds there in Tuscal looser.

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Speaker 1: They're like, ah, screw it, We'll just have gator and

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Speaker 1: they cooked the How do you cook that is? Where

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Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell? Does gator taste like?

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Speaker 1: I've never had it? Does it taste fishy? I don't know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah. It so very similar to how our college football

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Speaker 3: So he obviously he's used to, you know, letting it

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Speaker 3: Very few, very few hiccups.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I get my cursing out in the commercials,

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Speaker 1: and I usually in the main studio. I tried to

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Speaker 1: avoid that as a rule of thumb. In the podcast studio,

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Speaker 1: we can say all those words. But I did work

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Speaker 1: with the guy years ago, early on in my career,

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Speaker 1: and he had one of the legendary stories in LA radio.

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Speaker 1: He was working at a station I think you know

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Speaker 1: who this is. He was working at a station, the

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Speaker 1: station w was changing formats. He was about to lose

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Speaker 1: his job and the last night this is why you

446
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Speaker 1: never get a final show on radio. So his last

447
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Speaker 1: night on the air, he was completely schnockered, and near

448
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Speaker 1: the end of the show he said, like, you know,

449
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Speaker 1: who cares. They can't fire us, And then he just

450
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Speaker 1: started saying the F word and the S word, like

451
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Speaker 1: over and over and over, just like you heard with

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Speaker 1: Jelly Roll. And he did it into the microphone on

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Speaker 1: a radio station. And this is back in the days

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Speaker 1: when everyone was like freaking out, Oh my god, the yes,

455
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Speaker 1: the FCC is going to get you in all that.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think he got in any trouble for it,

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Speaker 1: but he did it. He like did it on the air.

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Speaker 1: How crazy is that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe screw him. He's one of the reasons why

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Speaker 3: we didn't get to say goodbye to our listeners when

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Speaker 3: we got fired from radio stations.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much, pretty much.

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Speaker 3: He's the reason. That's the reason right there we didn't

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Speaker 3: get to have farewells shows.

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Speaker 1: It's not right, man, it's not right. You never get

466
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Speaker 1: to goodbye. He's just vanished. Did you go off into

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Speaker 1: the cosmos? And that is that all right, so we

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Speaker 1: have what we we've got Backscratcher. That is what's next, Backscratcher, Danny.

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Speaker 1: These are actual reviews by actual people that have listened

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, and it does help us out the

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Speaker 1: Apple podcast pages. In the description this week, Danny, do

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Speaker 1: we have one, two, three, or four reviews on the

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Speaker 1: Backscratcher Apple podcast page?

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Speaker 3: Wow, you went all the way up to four. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna say three.

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Speaker 1: Well, Danny, you'll be happy to know that we have

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Speaker 1: not one, not two, but d n Nate Nate name,

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Speaker 1: you got it right?

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Speaker 3: Three? Three? Yeah? Man, I'm good at this game.

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Speaker 1: I think you did. You cheat, Danny, don't cheat now.

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Speaker 1: First one is from our friend Peter, who is from Cleveland,

482
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Speaker 1: and he gave us five stars. He said he rarely

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Speaker 1: misses an episode. Says his brother in law listens live

484
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Speaker 1: every night. He recommended the show, and I started podcasting

485
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Speaker 1: it and now rarely miss an episode. He says he

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Speaker 1: especially loves the fifth hour, and he loves the listener letters.

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Speaker 1: He likes the mail bag. Danny loves the mail bag.

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Speaker 1: I love the mail bag.

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Speaker 3: Too, Peter. I love I love ask Ben.

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Speaker 1: He just not ask Ben. This is a totally different feature,

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Speaker 1: and it'll be on tomorrow's podcast. He says, thanks for

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Speaker 1: consistent excellence. Highly recommend the show and follow up. It

493
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Speaker 1: just keeps getting better. Best duel on the dial. Danny

494
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Speaker 1: and Benny rocketed to my top podcast.

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Speaker 3: How about that, Danny, nice man. I'm gonna show that

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Speaker 3: to our boss. We are.

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Speaker 1: We are number one on Peter's smartphone, loud and clear,

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Speaker 1: right there.

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Speaker 5: Number one, number one, number one now with a bullet,

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Speaker 5: number one on an iPhone or an Android or whatever

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Speaker 5: he happens to have.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Thank you, Peter. Next up, we have a

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Speaker 1: splendid Daddy from Leesburg, Alabama. Daddy's four point nine stars,

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Speaker 1: Nobody's perfect, Ben and Danny and Splendid Daddy says, I

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00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: have listened to all twenty three hours a week, twenty

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Speaker 1: for the show and three for the fifth hour for

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Speaker 1: three years running.

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Speaker 3: Now and then his mind must be warped.

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Speaker 1: Smartest guy in Leesburg, Alabama, and to prove that he's

510
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Speaker 1: really from Leesburg, Alabama, he says, y'all are down to earth,

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Speaker 1: anti woke, and best of all, I love the sarcasm.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Hopefully all get another twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we.

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Speaker 1: Prout both Danny probably need to work in other twenty years.

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Speaker 1: I think that's pretty fair to say, right, I don't know,

516
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: unless we win the lottery or something like that.

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Speaker 3: Right, well, we are definitely retiring at seventy five years old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, I think, I think so, I think

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Speaker 1: that's gonna that's gonna happen. Cliff in Nashville rights away

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Speaker 1: twenty years. How will you think I am?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 1: Cliff in Nashville rights and so, he says, I so

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Speaker 1: look forward to the real Fifth Hour with Mallard and

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Speaker 1: Danny g Every weekend. They share their interesting life experiences

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Speaker 1: with candor and humor we can all relate to. And

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00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: then he says, Ben's quick wit, Danny's calm approach me

527
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: for a great team.

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Speaker 3: So they go, thank you, And everyone's been very nice here, Dad.

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Speaker 1: And the reason everyone's been nice is we just we

530
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Speaker 1: don't even read the bad reviews.

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Speaker 3: We just leave those the side. We only read the

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Speaker 3: good reviews.

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Speaker 1: But no, we would read the bad reviews, but we

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Speaker 1: don't get too many of those, which is pretty cool. Actually,

535
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: most of the ones we got were when I was

536
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: doing the show with guests, and he would go through

537
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: his Rolodex and put like these really polarizing political people

538
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: on the podcast, and I'm like, all right, whatever your book,

539
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: I'll talk to whoever.

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Speaker 3: I don't really I rarely.

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Speaker 1: Turned down anyone, but certain people really got like freaked out,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm I'm of the mindset I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to pretty much anybody. I'm not, you know, on either

544
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Speaker 1: side of the aisle. Obviously I'm on the anti woke side,

545
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Speaker 1: but I'll talk to people I don't really care.

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Speaker 3: And some people just lose their mind. They lose their mind.

547
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Speaker 3: And we've had to rebuild your overall score ever since.

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Speaker 1: I know, we were like what happened? Man, People were

549
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Speaker 1: like us.

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Speaker 3: When I joined your show, you had like a three

551
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Speaker 3: point nine overall rating. Well give or take, you know,

552
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Speaker 3: give me. But thank you to all the nice regular

553
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: listeners of the podcast, because that number is up to

554
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Speaker 3: a four point nine right now. Loujah Hei you Jesus. Yeah.

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00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about this and I thank you

556
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: for downloading the podcast and supporting what we do here

557
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: because originally, when we started the podcast, it was going

558
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: to be like another Sporto podcast. It was gonna be

559
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: a gambling podcast, which it was for a while, and

560
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 1: then it was just gonna be all interviews. And now,

561
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: even though we talked some hot college football earlier in

562
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: this podcast, it is I would say ninety two percent

563
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: just about like us.

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Speaker 3: And ten percent shenanigans.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a numbers guy, but that doesn't seem to

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Speaker 1: add up. Yeah, and it's like, listen, we're in the

567
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: same battle everyone's in, right, We're all trying to make

568
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: it through the crazy cornfield maze that is life, and

569
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Speaker 1: stupid is as stupid does.

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Speaker 3: And that's the way.

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Speaker 1: The way it works. All right, we have with the

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Speaker 1: word of the week, the word all the week. I

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Speaker 1: think I used this word yesterday, Danny. The word of.

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Speaker 3: The week, the word of the week.

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Speaker 1: The word of the week. The word of the week

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Speaker 1: is moxie. Moxie is the word of the week. So moxie,

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Speaker 1: it's to me, it's a synonym of gumption, courage, I

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Speaker 1: guess would be the way a lot of people look

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Speaker 1: at it, that moxie means you have intestinal fortitude. If

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Speaker 1: you got moxie, that's a compliment. Now, I didn't really

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Speaker 1: know much about the history of the word, so I

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Speaker 1: was like, all right, let's make this the word of

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Speaker 1: the week. I use it from time to time. It's

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Speaker 1: in my lexicon. What exactly does it mean? And I

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00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: know what it kind of means? But where did it

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00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: come from? So there's a couple of avenues you can

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Speaker 1: go down from what I was able to uncover. It

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00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: actually goes back about the modern usage goes back about

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Speaker 1: one hundred years, and it was a brand name. The

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Speaker 1: term moxie was a brand name of a bitter, non

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Speaker 1: alcoholic drink, So that's in like the nineteen thirties, and

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Speaker 1: then you go back to the eighteen eighties, eighteen seventies,

593
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: it was the name of a medicine advertised to build

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Speaker 1: up your nerve. Yeah, that kind of makes sense. And

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Speaker 1: despite the beginnings of the word, there's all kinds of

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Speaker 1: stories on the internet, I believe it or not. People

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Speaker 1: people love words.

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Speaker 3: I love words.

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Speaker 1: And they claim that the company, that company, the medical company,

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Speaker 1: put out all these wild stories about it. But they

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Speaker 1: think the term actually came from a New England Indian word.

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Speaker 1: And they say there's a fair amount of rivers, like

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a river and a lake in Maine

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Speaker 1: that are named moxie. They say, in the original Indian language,

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Speaker 1: it means dark water. Okay, dark water. So there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of different meetings on that. And they say in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen teens, nineteen seventeen, there was a moxie company

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Speaker 1: that won an infringement lawsuit against a competitor. Somebody started

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Speaker 1: a different beverage called Proxy. That's pretty funny. That's like

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Speaker 1: that coming to America where they had McDowell's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you're selling a lot of beverages called moxie.

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00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: So we're going to go the other way. We're going

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Speaker 1: to go proxy. What could possibly go wrong?

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Speaker 3: Man alive?

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll get out on that note, Danny, we

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Speaker 1: will push pop goes the culture to the Sunday mail

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Speaker 1: Bag podcast, but I will go first with the begging.

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Speaker 1: And it's Saturday, which means I am not doing radio,

620
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: but I am doing television. So Benny versus the Penny.

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Speaker 1: If you have not watched it yet, please try to

622
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: check it out. It's all over cable television regional cable

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Speaker 1: television on the NBC Sports affiliates around the country in Boston, Chicago, La,

624
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: New York, Philadelphia, and a bunch of other cities. You

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00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: don't have to point out at every time, Danny, you

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00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: don't point that out.

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00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, let it be known. The Lakers channel in La

628
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 3: is where you can watch Ben Malley.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that is going to be available off

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Speaker 1: and on throughout the day, depending on which city you

631
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Speaker 1: are in. If you've already watched it, watch it again.

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00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: That would help us out a lot. That would help

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Speaker 1: us out a lot. If you did that, that would mean

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00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: a lot to me. So I do appreciate that. I'm

635
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 1: trying to make sure this thing doesn't get canceled by

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00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 1: week nine, and if people actually watch it, maybe they'll

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00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: actually bring it back for another year.

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Speaker 3: That would be wild.

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00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: Also, we've only made it through two weeks though, so

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Speaker 1: we have many, many more shows to get through. Danny,

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Speaker 1: what do you have going on here? You're not working today? Right, Saturday,

642
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: day of rest.

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00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: Day of travel, because in about an hour we are

644
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 3: going to pack baby Koa into the car. He's gonna

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00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 3: go on his first little trip. We're gonna drive about

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00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 3: forty five minutes north to the ocean and spend one

647
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Speaker 3: night there on the beach, just because we are sick

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Speaker 3: of being stuck indoors.

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Speaker 1: Nice and co on the Rota. Right, it kind of

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Speaker 1: it flows right, you get like you have that as

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Speaker 1: a slogan.

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Speaker 3: CoA Bryant with his first road trip. You always remember

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Speaker 3: your first road tips.

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Speaker 1: And that's the story you'll tell when he gets his

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Speaker 1: driver's license someday. I remember the first trip we took.

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Speaker 3: I remember, you know, we went, you know here, and

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Speaker 3: it's Hollywood Shores, Ben, So who wouldn't want their first

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Speaker 3: trip to be an Oxnard, California.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful ox Star. That's the training camp home of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ox nord America's team.

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Speaker 1: All right, have a great Saturday. Thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to this. And we have the

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Speaker 1: mail Bag on Sunday, and you better listen to the

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Speaker 1: mail Bag on Sunday because that happens to be Peter

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Speaker 1: from Cleveland's Favorite Podcast, and I know we've got Peter listening,

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Speaker 1: and so you should listen as well. We'll catch you

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Speaker 1: next time. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Austa Pasta got a murder. I gotta go