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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 Maller starts right now.

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Speaker 1: In the air every where. The weekend kicks off right

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Speaker 1: now on a spooky edition of The Fifth Hour with

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Speaker 1: Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio Things that go bump

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Speaker 1: during the day. As Danny, this is the Friday, the

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Speaker 1: thirteenth edition of The Fifth Hour. Are you prepared?

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Speaker 3: You know who is excited about being in the month

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Speaker 3: of October. Who's that my next door neighbor who has

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Speaker 3: not taken down their Christmas lights from last year.

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Speaker 1: nightmare of putting the lights up, right, the bad dream

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Speaker 3: Is, Uh yeah, yeah, we're early.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well there you go. Just never take them off.

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Speaker 1: That's that's the definition of laziness. Just put them up

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Speaker 1: and or pay somebody to put them up and then

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Speaker 1: So on this edition of the Fifth Hours, we kick

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Speaker 1: Tony Bennett Special. It's spaghetti time, the word of the week,

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Speaker 3: Yeah we probably won't.

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Speaker 1: This past week now interesting for the radio show. So,

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Speaker 1: of traditional radio broadcasting. We do another three hours here

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Speaker 3: Here, Danny, So I know who this was?

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Speaker 1: Can you name? Can you guess the baseball player who

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Speaker 1: All right. This is where we're trying to figure out

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Speaker 3: Let's see, stat wise, he's one of the best catchers

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Speaker 1: that is not Mike. Mike Piazza actually had a falling

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Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know Fernando pitched for all those teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you totally threw me off with that list of

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Speaker 3: Now, did he have any sort of interaction with you?

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Speaker 1: There was a nod when he sat down, because when

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Speaker 1: Oh, he's got to be like the King of Mexico.

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Speaker 1: Like nobody nobody's gonna mess with Fernando. Like the cartels

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Speaker 3: My very first Dodger game as a little kindergartener, my

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Speaker 1: Right, So here's the question. How for Ando's listed age

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Speaker 1: is I think he's listed ages sixty two? Yeah, almost

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Speaker 1: sixty three. But if he really was much older than nineteen,

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Speaker 1: like there were stories I heard from old time Dodger

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Speaker 1: something like that.

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Speaker 3: What yeah, I would say he's closer to sixty eight

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Speaker 3: years old.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah. Anyway, Yeah, So anyway, that was

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Speaker 1: my interaction with.

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Speaker 3: I could have asked him to hey, Holmes, how old

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Speaker 3: are you? For reals?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I could have. I could have gone, I

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Speaker 1: don't think it would slap me or thrown some tomato

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Speaker 1: sauce on me or something from the pasta I don't know. Uh. Oh,

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Speaker 1: the word we want to get out on the word

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Speaker 1: of a week. How about that? You ready for the

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Speaker 1: word of the week? Word of the week? All right?

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Speaker 1: So the word of the week here, which is actually

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Speaker 1: it's more of a phrase hot potato.

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Speaker 3: Wait is this of the week?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 1: Why you can call. There were words, But you know,

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Speaker 1: why don't we say? How about the phrase of the week, Danny,

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Speaker 1: are you ready for the phrase of the week?

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Speaker 3: Phrase of the week?

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Speaker 1: Much sought after, much desired, much coveted, requested, and very marketable,

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Speaker 1: wrong and popular with a certain demographic. The phrase of

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Speaker 1: the week is hot potato. Now, I think we all

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Speaker 1: know what this means. Anything that is taboo, anything that

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Speaker 1: is a third rail type topic of conversation right, can

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Speaker 1: be awkward, controversial, delicate, can create some pushback. That would

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Speaker 1: be a hot potato. The term hot potato originated not

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Speaker 1: that long ago. In the context of the world and verbiage.

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Speaker 1: The term hot potato originated in the mid eighteen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: and it is taken from an older term to drop

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Speaker 1: like a hot potato. So hot potato is a shortened

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Speaker 1: version of the drop like a hot potato. It goes

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Speaker 1: back to I just said to the mid eighteen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: to abandon something or someone quickly. And what it means,

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Speaker 1: what it alludes to is the fact that if you've

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Speaker 1: ever cooked a potato, it retains a considerable amount of

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Speaker 1: its temperature, its heat, and if you try to pick

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Speaker 1: up said potato, you are likely to drop the potato

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Speaker 1: because it will burn your fingers and your hands and

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Speaker 1: all that. And so right, that is the and I

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Speaker 1: have done that. My mom used to make my dad

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Speaker 1: like baked potatoes, so we would us kids would make

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Speaker 1: the potatoes and we take them out of the the

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Speaker 1: like the stove or whatever. And it was it was

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Speaker 1: very hot. I remember it being like extremely extremely hot.

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Speaker 1: So I do recall, I do recall that. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. I got the TV show today.

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Speaker 1: I'd love you to watch that week six, Week six

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Speaker 1: of Benny Versus the Penny. It's on tonight on NBC

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Speaker 1: Sports Boston at seven thirty. We're gonna play Philly, and

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Speaker 1: we should get great ratings because NBC Sports Philadelphia is

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Speaker 1: the Philly station. They're in the NLCS. We'll be on

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Speaker 1: there at six thirty in Philadelphia. We play in Chicago

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Speaker 1: late night. Don't watch late night television. Watch watch Benny

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Speaker 1: Versus the Penny eleven thirty tonight in Chicago. The TV

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Speaker 1: show Beyond. We'll be on multiple times in San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: six thirty, seven thirty on NBC Sports Bay Area. We'll

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Speaker 1: also be on all day Saturday on Spectrum Sportsnet SoCal

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Speaker 1: beginning at six am here in LA on the Lakers

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Speaker 1: cable station six am, three pm, seven pm, and eleven pm.

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Speaker 1: Five four showings of Benny Versus the Penny on Saturday tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and we will play and as Danny says, New York

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Speaker 1: City on Sunday morning at eleven thirty am in New York,

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Speaker 1: we'll have just before the pregame shows and all that

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Speaker 1: Rigamo roar for the NFL, we'll have Benny Versus the Penny.

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Speaker 1: That's on Sportsnet New York, the cable home of the

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Speaker 1: New York Metropolitans. It also airs a bunch of other times.

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Speaker 1: But check your local cable listenings. Can you tell me

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Speaker 1: to do that? Your local TV listings?

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Speaker 3: That you tell me local listings is what you need

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Speaker 3: to tell everybody. Now, as I watch Laker programming on

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Speaker 3: Spectrum Sports LA, the Penny is gonna haunt me. One second,

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Speaker 3: I'll be watching a Lakers preseason game. The next second,

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Speaker 3: your big mug is going to be on the screen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait. No, My goal and this will be

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Speaker 1: the ultimate here is if Bill McDonald, who I've known

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Speaker 1: for years, I haven't seen him in a while because

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Speaker 1: of the COVID stuff. And I've been back to Laker

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Speaker 1: games while, but back when I used to go out

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Speaker 1: there all the time. Bill McDonald, the play by play

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Speaker 1: guy on TV, maybe he'll be forced to do a

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Speaker 1: promo for Benny versus the Penning. Now, that would be

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Speaker 1: that would be that would be just great. But who knows?

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Speaker 1: What are you hear going on? You got Covino on

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Speaker 1: Rich today, Danny g Yes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, got a fun Friday afternoon show planned weekend

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Speaker 3: hob Nobbin and our power parlay and everything else, all

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Speaker 3: the shenanigans that we normally have to end the week.

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Speaker 3: And that is two to four pm on the West Coast,

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Speaker 3: five to seven pm in New York City.

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Speaker 1: Have a wonderful day today, obviously, on this Friday, the thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: Stay safe and joy, have a wonderful time, and we

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Speaker 1: will catch you on Saturday later.

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Speaker 3: Skater got a murder. I gotta go,