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

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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 a everywhere you have found the weekended fund

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Speaker 1: the whole family. Unless it's not. We will attempt to

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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with myself, Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio

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Speaker 1: in the podcast Ojo This week different than all other

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Speaker 1: a companion to keep your company on the weekends. Did

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Speaker 1: we go skinny dipping this week? No, we did not

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Speaker 1: go skinny dipping this week. There was none of that.

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Speaker 1: There was no nudity that took place this week. However,

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Speaker 1: the week. First of all, we thank you, appreciate that

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Speaker 1: cool beans. Good job by you. Secondly, one of our

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Speaker 1: We announced early in the week that our friend Roberto

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Speaker 1: Cooking with Roberto Fame, Roberto Flores, who has been part

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Speaker 1: stepping away. He is leaving the radio show. The announcement

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Speaker 1: done with the Ben Mather Show. Roberto worked on our

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Speaker 1: program from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three. Some of

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Speaker 1: the great highlights with Roberto going back and forth. When

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Speaker 1: lamenting the run of Dodger baseball. We were together in

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. So we got to celebrate that under

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to spend time with Robert. There is

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Speaker 1: a tradition, not a great tradition, but there's a tradition

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Speaker 1: in the broadcasting business. When you are fired or when

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Speaker 1: They get rid of you, they change the codes, they

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Speaker 1: and it appears that is the way it will always be.

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Speaker 1: So with the podcast, we have a little more leeway

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Speaker 1: here on the podcast, and so I wanted to bring

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Speaker 1: He's got a new career. We'll get into that if

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Speaker 3: Yes? Ben did fire the fuck out of me.

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Speaker 3: No, Ben did not fire me. I decided to lead

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Speaker 3: When you run the board, you will you're you're you're

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Speaker 1: So you just correct, you will be Roberto the school

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Speaker 3: First, I can say that even though I saw if

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know what, being a bus driver

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's great. No. And I tried to explain

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Speaker 1: They wear you out. People that work overnight and I

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Speaker 1: I've re placed Yeah, yeah, replaced Danny G who's on

433
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Speaker 1: this podcast? Now back with me on the on the podcast.

434
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite moment or is it all

435
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,479
Speaker 1: a nightmare working on the show? Is there anything that

436
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: was good? Any any favorite memory from the last five

437
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 1: years running as a key member of the show, anything

438
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:38,400
Speaker 1: that really stands. Yeah. Whenever the Clippers lost, Screw you, Roberto,

439
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: what is still wrong with the Clippers? Screw you?

440
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 3: That was all the ship you talking about the Lakers

441
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 3: and the Clippers. Always Tato the Clippers.

442
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 1: Hilarious, dude At least the Lakers win a championship while

443
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:54,920
Speaker 1: you worked on the show. So I did do that.

444
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: But the worst remember the one that when they lost

445
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,560
Speaker 1: to the Nuggets and I wore a paper bag on

446
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,600
Speaker 1: my head, Although that was during COVID, but I still wore.

447
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,840
Speaker 1: I wore a damn paper bag on my head the

448
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,200
Speaker 1: entire the entire fucking show.

449
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 3: And yeah, when you when you you cursed on the

450
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 3: air about Doc Rivers.

451
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, trust me, I wanted to curse a lot more

452
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: than that. I wanted to do nothing. I would i

453
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: were on satellite radio only because I would have just

454
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: cursed the entire time. The bane of my existence Doc Rivers,

455
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 1: who ruined not only the Lob City Clippers, but also

456
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 1: the first part of the Kawhi Leonard Clippers, and that

457
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: that could be the only time That's like Kawhi was

458
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:40,120
Speaker 1: there and Paul George were there. Since then, they've been

459
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: hurt in the playoffs, one of them or both of

460
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: them every single year. The other thing I thought about

461
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,679
Speaker 1: this to Roberta with you leaving the whit.

462
00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 3: White, I wanted to tell people this, Bennett is the

463
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 3: only guy in sports that I know that hates one

464
00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 3: team more than he actually likes his team. I hate

465
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 3: the Lakers. You hate the Lakers more than you actually

466
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,280
Speaker 3: like the Clippers. It's fucking embarrassing.

467
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: Oh that's not true. That's a lie. Ye know, that's fad,

468
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: that's fag. Let me explain first of all. Let me explain.

469
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: First of all, I am surrounded. There's a main date

470
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 1: at the company to hire people that love Lakers. I've

471
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 1: been there twenty years. Over twenty years, everyone I've worked with,

472
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: almost with few exceptions, has been a Laker hank. Okay,

473
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 1: not just a casual way.

474
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 3: You want to be a Clipper fan, you're not.

475
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: No, no, But there's people from all over the country

476
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: that have worked there. But it doesn't matter. They're all

477
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: Laker Lakers. And it makes me want to puke. Okay,

478
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,199
Speaker 1: it makes me want to puke. And so it's not

479
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: it's not that I don't love when great things happen

480
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: to the Clippers. I enjoy that very much. And I

481
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,639
Speaker 1: hope you'll tune in, Roberto when the Clippers win the

482
00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: championship next year, it'll be my matt Piece. It'll be

483
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 1: my greatest show in the history of broadcasting. I might

484
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: even retire after that show. Roberto, I might join as

485
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 1: a bus driver. I might just yeah, I might.

486
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:11,360
Speaker 3: I might.

487
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: Once the Clippers win the championship, that might be the

488
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: final act. That'll be my swan song. I'll get out here.

489
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: I also wanted to point out the other thing about

490
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: you leaving is you have been since you've been a

491
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: key member of the show, many of the people that

492
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:29,040
Speaker 1: write the different songs for the show, you've been mentioned

493
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: in all of them. So now every song is now

494
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: you are memorialized, mora realized in those songs. So when

495
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: we play them, your name will be mentioned. And I

496
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: guarantee whoever the whoever places you will be pissed off

497
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: because their name won't be in the song.

498
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 3: A ah, yeah, that's right, all.

499
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: Right, So you'll still be mentioned in those songs until

500
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: people write new songs or whatever. And then as far

501
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: as the drops, and people have been very upset, Mark,

502
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: who's been filling in a lot for you, is not

503
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 1: a big drop guy eyes kind of that's not his jam.

504
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: And you were very big on the drops. What was

505
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: your favorite drop on the show. Because I the feedback

506
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: I've got, I want to see if you agree with

507
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: the feedback that I've gotten since you left the show

508
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: because there's one drop in particular that people love when

509
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: you play, they demand that you play that. In fact,

510
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: they're spitting mad Roberto that since you left, this drop

511
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: has no longer been played. So I want to I

512
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: want to see if we're on the same wavelength here.

513
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: What are the drops that you loved when you were

514
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: doing all that?

515
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 3: He blew me off at a hotel and lax.

516
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not your please out there. He blew

517
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: me off at a hotel near La x.

518
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 3: Oh. One drop that I really wanted to play. I

519
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 3: was going to play it. I was going to play

520
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 3: it recently, and I forgot to play it was Negroes

521
00:26:59,040 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 3: look the same.

522
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: Yes, make sure you get it right. That's Phil and

523
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: Joe Nicro But all those Negroes look the same, their

524
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: knuckleball pitchers. And yeah, and that that drop Roberto got

525
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 1: me in trouble. I had people saying that I was racist,

526
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: that I was like the the Oakland A's broadcast because

527
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 1: people don't pay attention when they listen, and they some

528
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: people want to hear certain things that were not said.

529
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: But it was it was Phil and Joe nicro Uh brothers,

530
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: that's right, but the and that was that that that

531
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: friend in ed and Spokane got me to say that

532
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: that schmuck edin Spokane, that big potato head. But but

533
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: the the other one, the one that people love, Roberto

534
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: is out of context racist drop racist love that.

535
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,159
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah the raci Oh yeah, I love it.

536
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, they love and that. This is people from all

537
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: backgrounds all. It doesn't matter. Everyone thinks that's hilarious. The

538
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: times we live in when you know you you, we'd

539
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 1: say you know Cleveland browns and you'd play.

540
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:11,639
Speaker 3: This, Yeah, Cincinnati reds exactly, Chicago black, the Chicago white

541
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 3: Hogs races exactly.

542
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: Exactly hilarious like that. That is just tremendous. And I

543
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: don't think we've heard that since you you went away

544
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: from the show.

545
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 3: Oh that's sad. Yeah, that's sad. Man, Come on man.

546
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: Yeah you're Mark.

547
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 3: Cook it up, pick it up.

548
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: Well, whoever ends up officially, we don't know. There's a

549
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: trial period because it's tough to fill your shoes because

550
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: you have very big feet. But but no, there's a

551
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: trial period. But find someone to replace you, so you

552
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: might it should be same.

553
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 3: I'll just say that it should be thinking.

554
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: That's your vote yeah, I have no no control over that.

555
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: They haven't asked me. You know, they don't ask me

556
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: those things. But if they do, you know, I'll give

557
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: my opinion. But they haven't asked me that. Now, you

558
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: you did for a long time we had weather with

559
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: Roberto that that gave us the Mexican Doppler. But you've

560
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: been known for cooking with Roberto and I told you, Roberto,

561
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: I remember having a conversation when I came back from

562
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: Minnesota and some of these other meet and greets, like

563
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: the guys that are fans of the show, were they

564
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: were making your recipes, which blew me away because the

565
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: last number of months you haven't even been putting the

566
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: recipes out. You've just been doing them on the show

567
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: and not been like sending out the actual recipes on

568
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: social media because you've been off off of the Twitter.

569
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: So what was the favorite thing, favorite recipe that you

570
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: gave out on Cooking with Roberto? Is there anything that

571
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: you love more?

572
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 3: I would probably say, uh my, my, my, uh my,

573
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 3: carn saw the recipe. That's truly because yeah, because I

574
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 3: gave out various stuff that you could you could have

575
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 3: done with it. Also, get like a nacho saw the

576
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 3: fries and the recipe and it was basically still based

577
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 3: on my carnate saw the recipe and uh and uh

578
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 3: it was another one. Yeah, what was my my my uh,

579
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 3: my carnate saw the recipe? Was was was my? Was

580
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 3: my favorite one? Because dos a few of the things

581
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 3: that I said that you were able to do with

582
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 3: my carnasilo. Yeah, it's not coming up. It's not coming

583
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 3: on the top of my head right now.

584
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: I got you. I got you.

585
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 3: Now.

586
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: The other question, we had talked to you on the

587
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: air and you had said, if Dave Roberts got fired,

588
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: you'd go back on Twitter. Dave Roberts. I just checked.

589
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: He's not been fired yet, Roberto, even though after this

590
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: week in Cincinnati he probably should have been. But Dave

591
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: Roberts not fired. And you then also said, Josh McDaniels,

592
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: if he got replaced, you would go back. He didn't

593
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: get replaced. He's still coaching the Raiders. But now you've

594
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: changed jobs. So is there any chance that you will

595
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: pop back up randomly and reactivate the Twitter account or

596
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: is that dead forever?

597
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 3: You're fired, not dead forever. So if people want to

598
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,719
Speaker 3: see me back on Twitter, they should pray that the

599
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 3: Dodgers win the World Series, and then I'll be back

600
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 3: on Twitter. How about that?

601
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. So if the Dodgers, Yeah, come on.

602
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 3: People, pray for the Dodgers win the World theories.

603
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: Come on, we need the Dodgers to win the world

604
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: Are you still paying off the twenty seventeen World Series, Roberto?

605
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: Are you still paying that off?

606
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 3: I think that's that's finally it's finally done.

607
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: I believe, so finally after all these years. Anything you

608
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: will you want to say to Jose Altuve, anything you

609
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: want to pass on to our boot.

610
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 3: To fucking midget, fuck that guy?

611
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: All right, very well, and we'll get you out on this, Roberto.

612
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: Anything you're gonna miss about radio? I know the business

613
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: has changed a lot. You've been in radio a while.

614
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: It's a lot different than when you started it. You

615
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: think you're completely done with radio?

616
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:36,479
Speaker 2: Now?

617
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: Bus drivers a great job. You can have that probably

618
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: the rest of your life if you want. You think

619
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: your radio's over? And what are you gonna miss about?

620
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: If anything?

621
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: I missed, I missed the I missed the camaraderie without

622
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 3: you guys, with you guys, I'm you and and Eddie

623
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 3: and Coop and even working with Jonas and Lee and

624
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 3: LeVar and Brady was a lot of fun. I'm to

625
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 3: come out with with all of you guys, that was

626
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. But the pay I've definitely I'm

627
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 3: definitely not going to miss that, So I think for

628
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: that reason, I probably won't be back in radio for

629
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 3: that reason alone. And you know, it's like all of

630
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 3: the stuff added up for me was the you know,

631
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 3: having to work over overnight when when I couldn't sleep,

632
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 3: and then.

633
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: In the holidays too, having to work on holidays off.

634
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I had to ask to get

635
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 3: a holiday off if I wanted to, if I wanted

636
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 3: to have the holiday off, those kinds of things. A

637
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 3: lot of that stuff took a lot of the the

638
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 3: fun out of the jobs. But working with you guys,

639
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 3: you know, you know, you know for that time when

640
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 3: I was there, you know made it fun. And you

641
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 3: know when I had when I was there, you know,

642
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 3: it was a lot of fun working with all of you.

643
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 3: So I'm definitely gonna miss that.

644
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: Well, I loved you, I still love you. I'll still

645
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: bust your balls about to do We'll go back and

646
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: forth with the Dodgers and when the Lakers lose, I'll

647
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: make sure to send you a text.

648
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 3: When when Kawhi terrors the next a cl Yeah, I

649
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 3: wanted to text you for that.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has some kind ersenal backup and is not

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Speaker 1: able to play, I'll send you a smiley emoji or

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Speaker 1: something like that. But good luck with the school bus driving.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss you on the show. I've loved you

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Speaker 1: on the show. It's been a lot of fun. The

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Speaker 1: fans love you. We're all gonna miss you, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: we got to get together at some point here and

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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll still be friends. I know a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is with Berto. You work with somebody

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Speaker 1: for a while and then you change jobs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the crazy, right cause I've been I've

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Speaker 3: been in this business bus and then raided since I

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Speaker 3: was in uh two thousand and three, and there is

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Speaker 3: a there. My first radio job, my my first boss,

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Speaker 3: I still I still talk to from time to time,

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Speaker 3: and he's one of the longest people that I've that

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Speaker 3: I've talked to. I've been in radio and then my

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Speaker 3: second radio job, I was there for like ten years,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of those people I just talked to

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Speaker 3: them in social media, but I'm definitely gonna try to

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Speaker 3: keep contact with with with everybody that you know, I

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Speaker 3: worked with, the ne FISR that I that I talk

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Speaker 3: to every day. Definitely, they're going to try to tain

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Speaker 3: to keep contact because life's too short.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, man, exactly, you got to enjoy. I mean, people

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Speaker 1: come and go in your life, and you try to

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Speaker 1: keep people around as many people as you can. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll let you go on that, Roberto, Thank you, good luck,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your weekends off, enjoy your holidays off, enjoy summer's off.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have much more time off than iver we'll

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Speaker 1: have again, So thank you for your time and I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks Roberto. You got a bank going Dow