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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 sole fastion of fairness. He

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: The clearing House 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 4: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with Ben Mahlor

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Speaker 4: and in for the Flying Hawaiian Danny G Radio.

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Speaker 1: We've got my buddy Alex Tyshirt, better known in my

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Speaker 1: world as Alex le Vegan, a fellow Inner Minute Faster.

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Speaker 1: We are both members of the cult. Yes, and we've

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Speaker 1: talked about that a fair amount. But we're back at

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Speaker 1: it again and the Sunday Podcast on this tenth day

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Speaker 1: of March all about out the mail bag. But before

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Speaker 1: we get to the mailbag, we have to celebrate National

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Speaker 1: Landline Telephone Day because today is National Landline Telephone Day,

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Speaker 1: a big day's At one point, the phone company's made

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Speaker 1: it is National ranch Day, which is a terrible day.

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Speaker 1: I made that pretty clear over the years, my disdain

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Speaker 1: what else is it? Today's a National Pack your Lunch Day? Wow? Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a National pack your lunch Day. That's always a

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Speaker 1: Every day is a dopey holidays. National Pretzel Sunday not

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Speaker 1: Prestel Sunday Pretzel Sunday today. So let's get to the

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Speaker 1: mail bag. These are actual questions by actual listeners to

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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So the first one thanks to ohio

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Speaker 1: a who So anyway, the first one comes from Kevin,

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Speaker 1: who is in Kansas, and Kevin says, dear Ben and

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Speaker 1: Alex Ben, I enjoyed your discussion on the radio about

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Speaker 1: Joe DiMaggio and how you snuck out through the kitchen

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Speaker 1: I've never had to worry about doing something like that.

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Speaker 1: But as you've become more famous and recognized, Kevin says,

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Speaker 1: I'm flattered, Kevin that you think the overnight radio guy

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Speaker 3: you that, then me guess the devil's blood. I do

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Speaker 3: love a Sacha ranch plan I can't even I really

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Speaker 3: like a Sacha ranch.

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Speaker 1: I've been eating occasionally eat cheese curds from Wisconsin, and

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Speaker 1: I like the garlic Aolie bomb super bomb, garlic Aolie

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Speaker 1: solid solid. So this some of the things, uh, alf

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Speaker 1: from the line at the porta potty rights, since there's

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Speaker 1: anything worse than going into the bathroom after a vegan

435
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: has dropped the deuce. Wow, shots fired by out, Shots

436
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Speaker 1: fired at Alf? Oh over there, Alex, can I throw

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Speaker 1: fire back?

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Speaker 2: Ben?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: So I'll say this number one. You should be grateful

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Speaker 3: because if they're a true vegan and they're eating plants

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Speaker 3: and vegetables, we just bless your toilet because not only

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Speaker 3: is it gonna smell good, we'll leave no stains on

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Speaker 3: the side because that is only from meat products. Okay,

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Speaker 3: and third off, third off, we are so quick with

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Speaker 3: it because our fiber intake is so quick. I literally

447
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 3: sit down it's out to wipe some up. You don't

448
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Speaker 3: even have to wait for me. So all I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: say is your loss.

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Speaker 1: Okay, your loss. Wow, you're saying you have magical poopy.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible.

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Speaker 3: I've actually seen Ben there is a legit website that

453
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Speaker 3: would pay top dollar for people who are plant based

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Speaker 3: their poopoo, just saying, just.

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Speaker 1: Saying, well, there's people will pay for it. That's true

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Speaker 1: that they go for it. All right, what is next year?

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Speaker 1: Let's see, we'll skip over that one page down, Ryan

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Speaker 1: writes in. Ryan C. Says, Hey, hey boys, I'm from

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Speaker 1: a small town called Shrewsbury, mass and the Commonwealth, and

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Speaker 1: I have listened to every podcast in full since October

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty three. Wow, it's very kind of here

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Speaker 1: we are in March. My question is that I have

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Speaker 1: been to northern California in twenty sixteen, specifically San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: But I want to go back to California, but to

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Speaker 1: the southern part, like La and all that. So you

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Speaker 1: both live in southern California. What would you guys recommend

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Speaker 1: doing and seeing when I get out there with the wife.

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Speaker 1: So Ryan is asking for some recommendations here, okay, and

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Speaker 1: let's see what the beach is.

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Speaker 3: Obviously absolutely the spot. I gotta go out to Venice

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Speaker 3: and just watch people. People watch so much fun like

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Speaker 3: Venice like a zoo. Yes it's a concrete jungle man.

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Speaker 1: Go there's a bunch of little beach towns if you want,

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Speaker 1: all the way down the coast Highway one is a

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Speaker 1: really cool drive.

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Speaker 3: Maybe just cruise.

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Speaker 1: You can cruise all the way up to central California

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Speaker 1: and down Santa Barbara amazing. No billboards in Santa Barbara,

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Speaker 1: against the law to have billboards in Santa Blar beautiful.

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Speaker 1: You get the all the way down if you want,

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Speaker 1: you can go to what it's the town I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: of there. It's kind of below San Francisco, I forget,

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Speaker 1: but there's a there's some really cool beach towns just

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Speaker 1: along the coast there. And then if you want to

485
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Speaker 1: go hang out with all the people that think they're

486
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Speaker 1: important in Malibu, a lot of traffic. I don't recommend

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Speaker 1: that the work your way, work your way down and

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Speaker 1: all the way down to the beautiful beaches in Orange County,

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Speaker 1: Hunting Beach and Newport Beach, which is amazing, just just

490
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Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely great there. So yeah, there's there's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of wonderful beaches, and then it's sort as like the

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Speaker 1: restaurants and stuff like that. I would avoid the tourist places. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what your favorite food is, Ryan. We

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Speaker 1: do have the number one pastrami sandwich if you're into

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And Langer's Delhi in LA which

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Speaker 1: is really good, some great Mexican food here. And there's

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Speaker 1: obviously the tourist traps, but I don't think the tourist

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Speaker 1: traps are the spots. They're just well too much. You know.

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Speaker 3: That's like wine country. It's like more my area in

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Speaker 3: Corona area had some great wineries and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: Out there.

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful land, just open farmland that's really nice too. Norco, Horsetown, USA,

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Speaker 3: it's like basically like Norco.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Ryan, come from Shrewsbury Master Norcoe. Yes, that is true.

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Speaker 1: No one else has ever given that advice. You're the

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Speaker 1: only one in the history of podcasting as to recommend

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Speaker 1: a guy coming to southern California with his wife on

508
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Speaker 1: vacation go to Norco.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful place, more horses than people.

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Speaker 1: You'll love it. Wow, that is outstanding advice. Nobody else

511
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,200
Speaker 1: has that. Also, I don't know how much you're into entertainment, Ryan,

512
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Speaker 1: there's some What I think is kind of cool is

513
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Speaker 1: driving around where they film famous movies and TV shows,

514
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Speaker 1: a lot of those, And that's not the I'm not

515
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: the Hollywood part, but just in neighborhoods around southern California.

516
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Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy if you want to see some

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. I used to go to the Brady

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Speaker 1: Bunch House all the time, for example, because I'm old

519
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Speaker 1: and it's actually not far away from where our studios are,

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Speaker 1: so that was one of my spots. You know, the

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Speaker 1: Ghostbusters fire Station is actually in skid row in La. Yeah. Yeah,

522
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: the Ghostbusters fire Station. So if you want to get shanked,

523
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Speaker 1: you can go down there with your wife and look

524
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Speaker 1: at where the Ghostbusters fire station is. Fun time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Ian in New Mexico writes in he says, hey, Ben

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Speaker 1: and Alex, what acress? What actress from your youth made

527
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: you first start paying attention to the ladies? He says,

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00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: I'll start for him. Ian says Linda Carter, especially when

529
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: I found my dad's Playboy with her. That really made

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Speaker 1: some things pop there for ian back in the day

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Speaker 1: safe to say, yeah, I don't know if there was

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Speaker 1: like one. I was like a teenager. I guess when

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Speaker 1: I've reference is Pam Anderson. There were there were, there

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Speaker 1: were women before before her that moved the needle. Sure

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Speaker 1: shall we say, but what about you? You're younger than

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Speaker 1: me any any moment there, Alex were just kind of connected.

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Speaker 1: You're like, this is something I could be into here.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you a man, back in sixth grade, I

539
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 3: was just always so intrinsically just pulled to women.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: They were just so divine, so elegantly designed right but

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Speaker 3: for us like actresses and stuff. I remember when I

543
00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 3: because Disney Channel was a big thing for me growing up.

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00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 3: We had Disney Loading, et cetera. And I remember there

545
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 3: was this one it was Lizzie McGuire show, and I

546
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Speaker 3: remember watching her name was Hillary Duff, the actress, and

547
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 3: I was just like, man, something about her makes me

548
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 3: want to actually get a job when I grow up

549
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: and do something to impress the like. I just remember

550
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: watching Hillary Duff in the way she carried herself, how

551
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Speaker 3: she articulated herself, and it was just so consuming because

552
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Speaker 3: from a persona of watching like a girl be an actress.

553
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 3: It was just so cool to see this beautiful woman

554
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 3: doing all these different type of charactures and stuff. And

555
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 3: then also Hannah Montana with Miley Cyrus, but she didn't

556
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 3: turn out great at all. So thank god I don't

557
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 3: have any you know, interest in her anymore, because that

558
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 3: was woof. She definitely went. She came in like a

559
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 3: wrecking ball. Ben, Let's just say that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, I hear you. I see what

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Speaker 1: you did there. Thanks Stewie. What else do we have here?

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Speaker 1: John from o'fallen, Illinois, just outside of Saint Louis, over

563
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: the river from Saint Louis, right city's he was. John

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00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: knows I get into I get into beefs with certain

565
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Speaker 1: people at work. So he says one of our competitors

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Speaker 1: as an evening producer who thinks he's some kind of star.

567
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: John says, he's telling me this Alex to make me

568
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Speaker 1: feel better about the people we work with. He says,

569
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: this guy will jump on sometimes and respond to callers

570
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: questions or correct them ahead of the host of the

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Speaker 1: of the show. John says, I heard him say to

572
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: the host, let me take this one.

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00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 4: Wow.

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00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: That's a big ball move. Wow, that is a big

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00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: ball move. John says it's a shame because the host

576
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: of the show is not all that bad. But there

577
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Speaker 1: you go. He has lackey that kills.

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Speaker 3: The show interesting.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I don't know who that is, John,

580
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: But I do enjoy good stories from you as the

581
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Speaker 1: consumer room and radio and what you think of that?

582
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Speaker 1: Dan and Ohio do a couple more, Dan and Ohio, right,

583
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: since this gentleman, are you guys going to be getting

584
00:29:55,240 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: a cyber truck? I have seen a couple. He also

585
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: sends a story here of a cyber truck being stuck

586
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: on a beach. Uh, stuck in the sand. Yeah, I don't.

587
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: I don't actually think they look that good that that's

588
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: an unpopular opinion. I think they look like something I

589
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: would have made in wood shop class if I were

590
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Speaker 1: trying to make a truck, Yes, in a wood shop class.

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00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean they're they're theyre apparently very well

592
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Speaker 1: made from what we've read.

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Speaker 3: I hope so because the Tesla's aren't, so hopefully these

594
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 3: are better.

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Speaker 1: Uh Lee and Chicago writes in. Uh says Been and

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Speaker 1: Alex is a story going around this week. That said,

597
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Speaker 1: lazy teachers use chat GPT to grade papers.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I've seen.

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Speaker 1: Do you do you use chat GPT to do your

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Speaker 1: malard monologues? No? I wish I did. They'd be a

601
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: lot probably be a lot better. And uh, yeah, that's fun.

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00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: I I don't think I uh, I'm into that. Steven

603
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: Seattle says, uh, what is Alex the Vegan's favorite motivational speaker? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite of you? Into that?

605
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: You?

606
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 3: I would say, of a motivational guy yourself, Alan Watts.

607
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: Alan Watts, Yeah, what about him resonating with you?

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00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: I kind of just stumbled across some of his things

609
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 3: and things he was talking about and his kind of

610
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 3: persona on the world and spirituality in himself. And he

611
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,719
Speaker 3: turned his whole life into basically trying to find a

612
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 3: better way to not only conversate with people, but to

613
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 3: help people see more so attributes outside of just modern

614
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 3: day Eastern or e's gonna be Western teachings. He was

615
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 3: very big into Eastern societies and cultures and studying in

616
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Speaker 3: Buddhism and Hinduism. And I just love the fact of

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Speaker 3: somebody going in a sense a different direction within modern

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00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 3: day standards and so he fine tuned himself so well.

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Speaker 3: The things he would talk about, it just almost resonated

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Speaker 3: with you with thinking to yourself, man, it's nice to

621
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Speaker 3: know somebody else out there in a sense kind of

622
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 3: understood more of what he was and was understanding more

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Speaker 3: of self. And so it kind of it's crazy because

624
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,239
Speaker 3: I never really listened to anybody, but as soon as

625
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 3: like little things by his trickled into my social media

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Speaker 3: and I just I would sit there and tell myself,

627
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, it's it's good to know I'm on

628
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 3: the right track, as there was people before me who

629
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Speaker 3: were also following that kind of same atonement. So it's

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Speaker 3: it's I'm such a fan of his stuff.

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00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at a photo I've never heard of

632
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: this guy, Alan watch and I could see you as

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00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: you ate, that's what I'm saying, becoming him. You kind

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Speaker 1: of look like that.

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Speaker 3: It's I don't know if you know about past lives

636
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 3: and stuff, but it trips me out how this guy

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00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 3: resonated with me and I've never even knew about the dude.

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Speaker 1: It's a trip. Yeah, he's been dead for a while.

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Speaker 1: He died. He died before I was alone. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: I'm getting old, so big fan of man. Yeah, I

641
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,719
Speaker 1: could put a pipe in your mouth and beads around. Hey,

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00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's a trip, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: There's one left? It's political? Should we bother with that? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I love Okay, all right? Mike

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Speaker 1: from Florida writes in I love it, I says not

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Speaker 1: to get political. You guys, did you guys vote on

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Speaker 1: Super Tuesday? And also he says, I saw this story

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Speaker 1: that Wall Street is hedging its bets on Don Trump

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Speaker 1: with Joe Biden? Can you put your political political cap on?

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Speaker 1: What does this actually mean? Okay? So I did vote.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you voted, Alex, I know I

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Speaker 3: don't like voting anymore. No, no, no, you do not vote.

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Speaker 1: Okay. I voted, and I was. It made me feel

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Speaker 1: good because I was the youngest person to vote. Everyone

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Speaker 1: was much older than me that was voting when I

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Speaker 1: was voting, So that made me feel good. As far

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Speaker 1: as this Wall Street thing, yeah, I mean hedging their

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Speaker 1: bets from from a business standpoint, Trump would be better

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Speaker 1: for business than Biden. Sure, but they must not see

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Speaker 1: I often. Let me rephrase it. So Alex on the

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Speaker 1: radio show, when I we talk about certain point spreads,

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Speaker 1: I would say, go to the gambling market to find

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Speaker 1: out what's going to happen with the free agent who's favored,

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Speaker 1: because they're never that far off because they have skin

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Speaker 1: in the game, Wall Street. If you go behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes here and peel back the onion. Oh yeah, they

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Speaker 1: decide who the president is.

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Speaker 3: Yep, always do. It's not us, trust me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so that's a big part of it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And if they're hedging their bets on Trump with Biden,

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Speaker 1: that either means a they don't know who's going to win,

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Speaker 1: they're not convinced of it, or they think what's the

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Speaker 1: other scenario. They think one of them is not going

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Speaker 1: to maybe make it, so they how to cover themselves

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Speaker 1: with the other.

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Speaker 3: One possibly possibly Well. It's also like with just the

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Speaker 3: whole state of the economy right now and inflation, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: It's a weird place to be and it's kind of

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Speaker 3: weighing on a lot of different things, not just presidency itself.

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Speaker 3: And that's why I like the conversation of politics because

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Speaker 3: to me, I've never been somebody who really is focused

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Speaker 3: on voting for one or the other, because I know

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Speaker 3: the only way you'll really make any type of implemental

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Speaker 3: changes at your local level around you before it gets

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Speaker 3: up to the lobbying and stuff, because that's where I

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Speaker 3: just tell people all the time, like, if you don't

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Speaker 3: know that lobbying exists and lobbyist is actually a thing,

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty almost kind of curious as to how you

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Speaker 3: think anything really matters at the top scale, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: But to me, all I know is that there's definitely

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Speaker 3: something that's going to happen with all this coming up,

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Speaker 3: and especially with how it's been moving forward. Because number one,

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Speaker 3: just seeing like the fact we only still have in

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Speaker 3: this type of age ben and like social media and

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Speaker 3: influence and insights into just any information, right, how are

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Speaker 3: we still stuck in a two political system? Blows my mind,

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Speaker 3: Like we're just literally stuck with this dude or this dude,

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Speaker 3: and we literally have a predominant statement always saying, oh,

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Speaker 3: it's the it's the better of the two evils, the

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Speaker 3: better of the worst. It's how are we still at

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Speaker 3: this level? To me, it blows my mind.

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Speaker 1: Well, you get to a certain point if nothing lasts forever,

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Speaker 1: at some point will be blown up. I'm ready for that.

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Speaker 1: Like the state of Texas will leave the Union, which

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Speaker 1: is close or whatever. That'll who knows, that might be

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Speaker 1: the next big thing, right, it just leaves the United

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Speaker 1: States and that'll be wild. And then if one state leaves,

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Speaker 1: there'll be others still go. Yeah, you'll have It'll be

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Speaker 1: like Africa where there's a bunch of different countries. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: in America, which would be wild and crazy and all that.

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Speaker 1: But it's like with polity. I have friends of mine.

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Speaker 1: I'm I lean a certain direction. I think you're listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast, you know which direction I lean politically,

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Speaker 1: And in California they lean the other way. And it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I have friends of mine and are like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I even bother vote. Well, nothing lasts forever, you know.

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Speaker 1: California was the other way and then it went this way.

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Speaker 1: It goes back and forth. Sometimes it takes a long time.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes a couple of generations, but it does

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Speaker 1: go back and forth. So anyway, all right, we'll get

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Speaker 1: out on that. Alex, thank you for being here all

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Speaker 1: the weekend. I appreciate it. You're the man my pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for moving me how can people hear you elsewhere?

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Speaker 1: And I know they hear you with Jason and occasionally

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Speaker 1: chime in there with Rob Parkers, those guys for sure.

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Speaker 1: If they want to hear your own work, your own podcast,

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Speaker 1: your own Alan Watts like yes, yes.

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Speaker 3: So if you would like to have some more inspiration

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Speaker 3: and you don't have to pay for therapy. We all

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Speaker 3: You can find it everywhere. You can find TikTok social media.

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Speaker 3: You can listen to podcasts everywhere. You listen to ben stuff.

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Speaker 3: And if you're still an anime too, or you want

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Speaker 3: to get introduced to culture, cultural entertainment that's outside of

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Speaker 3: and have something that's more attuned with you know the

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Speaker 3: and just morals and values and especially good just hand

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Speaker 3: drawn stuff that's almost going away with AI. Just look

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Speaker 3: up anime Sempi podcast. I have so much fun. I

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Speaker 3: love doing what I do and I do it just

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Speaker 3: simply for everybody. Because I haven't sold a single ad

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Speaker 3: or promotion, even though I've had plenty of people who

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Speaker 3: have asked, I don't do it for money. I do

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Speaker 3: it for you guys.

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Speaker 1: Well, money's kind of you know, it does help, it does.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm just saying, you know, I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, you're trying. You're right, You're right, and I'm just

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Speaker 3: trying to sound good right now. You're cool.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, very cool. Thank you all. Have a great day.

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