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

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

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Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. It is a special edition, a

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Speaker 1: holiday edition of the Ben Mahler Show, and a very

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Speaker 1: happy holiday to you, and a special hour we look

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Speaker 1: back to some of the great moments this year on

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Speaker 1: the show. We'll start out with weed Man Hit. This

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Speaker 1: was a new bit on the show, weed Management of Caller.

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Speaker 1: He's a character, his name is Billy. He lives in Miami.

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Speaker 1: He loves the show, and he's called us for a

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Speaker 1: long time, many years, and he always wanted his own segment.

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Speaker 1: So one day this year we just said, ah, what

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Speaker 1: debut of Ask a weed Man. Let's go back in

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Speaker 1: that very first edition of Ask a weed Man. Weed Man,

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Speaker 1: What is this what are we doing here? Are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Ask a weed Man? Is that what you want to do?

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Speaker 4: Right now?

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Speaker 1: Ask a weed Man?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Please, all right, well do it right now. Give out

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Speaker 1: the number right now. We'll hang up on some of

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Speaker 1: these idiots and call right now eight seven, seven ninety

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Speaker 1: nine on Fox. We're gonna do Ask a weed Man.

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Speaker 1: This is a trial run. And if you want to

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Speaker 1: send a question in hashtag ask a weed Man. And

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Speaker 1: are we starting it right now? Yeah, we're doing it

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Speaker 1: right now. Do we have any music for this?

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Speaker 4: Or?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 5: We do?

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Speaker 1: All right, little music, get me in the mood. Here

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Speaker 1: we go, all right? Ask Do you have any opening

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Speaker 1: thoughts on Ask a weed Man? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Everybody should be rich and free and speak the same language.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's you just believe they should be like

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Speaker 1: a universe. Isn't the emoji language the universal language of

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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know. I don't know why we don't

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Speaker 3: We should.

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Speaker 1: Well, because there's people that, uh, you know, there's big

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Speaker 1: The world's a big place, weed man. But you're the guy.

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Speaker 1: It's this is not my bit, it's your bit. Ask

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Speaker 1: a weed man. Let's say hello to it says Tokyo

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Speaker 1: t K. Is that correct? I think I'm saying that correct. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Tokyo t K. You're on with weed Man. It's ask

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Speaker 5: Well that's the way I called. But I'll do you

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Speaker 5: think the language that we should all use would be

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Speaker 3: Hey, what happened to the Montreal explodes?

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Speaker 1: That's a non secretor weed Man? You're you're this is

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Speaker 5: That's not why I'm called. But if you're going to

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Speaker 5: pick a language for everybody should be at yeah, go Toronto?

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Speaker 1: All right? Why did you call? Did you call the

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Speaker 5: No? I called because weed Man when he said this

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Speaker 5: last week, he gave me an idea. And I'm sure

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Speaker 5: you're in no shortage of good idea, fairies. But I

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Speaker 5: thought to myself, how about Mallard's Mountain of myths back

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Speaker 1: Well, that would be weed Man's dream. That would be

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Speaker 1: And now just Josh writes in on ask a weed Man.

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Speaker 1: He says, weed man, do you shower more than once

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Speaker 1: a week? And did the mice ever return your teeth?

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Speaker 3: The mice never return my teeth?

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Speaker 1: Once a week? Yes, one and a half times a week,

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Speaker 1: the heck? Good? Is that good?

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to shower every day. Let's go to Josh

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Speaker 1: in it's ask a weed Man and Josh is in Orlando. Josh,

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Speaker 2: Damn.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I got a question. What is the best.

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Speaker 2: And it would be one of those boats flagging.

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Speaker 1: Uh, that's a great question. That's a great question. We

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Speaker 1: all listen, weed man, we're all a couple of mistakes

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is great. Ask a weed man. This is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: Our friend from Miami, this is his debut. This is

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Speaker 1: your first bit late night drug tester writes, and he says, well,

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Speaker 1: the penny no longer being minted effect your panhandling. That's

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Speaker 1: some late night drug tester. All right, Trucker Joe writes

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Speaker 1: in from the highways and byeways, he says, Ask a

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Speaker 1: weed Man will go just as good as Benny and

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Speaker 1: the weed Man did in Vegas with those all those

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Speaker 1: you want to bring back Benny versus the Benny and

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Speaker 1: another call. Let's go to Mike in Detroit. Hello, Mike,

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Speaker 1: you're on with weed Man Hippie.

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Speaker 6: Was from Detroit.

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Speaker 3: What up? Weed Man?

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Speaker 1: How you do you remember me?

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Speaker 6: I'm a tote talk driver. You stayed at my house

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Speaker 6: in Northern Borider, remember you.

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Speaker 1: Man. Remember this is the guy I remember you. You

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Speaker 1: accuse me of having you kidnapped? Remember you? You begged

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Speaker 6: I'm just a tot talk driver.

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Speaker 1: phony folk. DJ. Mike is in Kansas City. It's ask

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Speaker 1: a weed Man, DJ. You're on with our buddy in Miami.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's great, weed man. When you're playing five dollars

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Speaker 6: are you hitting or are you staying?

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Speaker 1: Great? Great question.

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Speaker 5: I'm staying.

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Speaker 1: Your snaking? No, no, no, no, you gotta you gotta hit.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, great question, DJ Mike. Because you think gambling,

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Speaker 1: you think weed man. Hippie Rob in the three two one,

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Speaker 1: But this is going better than I thought. Rob in

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Speaker 8: Hey, Rob, weeds Man, how you doing. You're highly entertaining.

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Speaker 8: So if you ever want to meet Jeff Bezos or

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Speaker 8: Elon Musk and they said, hey, would you like a

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Speaker 3: Yes? Absolutely you would.

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Speaker 1: What if it was a one way ticket, though, weed man,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't come back? Would you know? All right? Thank you, Rob,

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Speaker 1: It's ask a weed man, Bud. These are great questions.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here, mister irrigation from Houston rights instances. Is

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Speaker 1: turn out successfully? Great question for mister irrigation. Wonderful.

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Speaker 3: Not unless you get away.

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Speaker 1: You gotta get away, though, Have you ever gotten Have

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Speaker 1: you ever been able to get away? Weed man? I've

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Speaker 1: known you a long time.

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Speaker 3: No, you're not very I actually did.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, really, And irrigation shitting me a beautiful ben.

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Speaker 1: Now a rig there you go. Enjoy that. Yes. Freddie

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Speaker 1: writes and says, what's your dream vacation? Ask a weed man?

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Speaker 8: He says, my dream vacation is coming out of California

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Speaker 8: and staying with Dan.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, No, let's make it happen. No, no, we don't.

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Speaker 1: We don't need that, weed man. Let's say hello to

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Speaker 1: nurse jockey in Cannes City. We're doing a random new bid.

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Speaker 1: It's ask a weed Man or friend Billy. He's in Miami.

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Speaker 1: Longtime loyal minion of this show. He sat through hurricanes

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Speaker 5: Yes, weed Man, I just want to know if you

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Speaker 5: have a patient who codes, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: King Rory. He says, does weed Man have more than

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: All right? All right, well, I lie. There's actually a

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Speaker 1: few more questions here. Let's see. Steve says, weed Man,

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Speaker 1: hippie to you is what Guillermo is to Jimmy Kimmel.

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Speaker 1: At least, he says, you're not making fun of Mexicans

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Speaker 1: like Kim goes. I don't know about that. Benito says,

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Speaker 1: what is the best beer to drink? That's from Benito,

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Speaker 1: the long suffering cowboy fan. That's your go to beer?

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Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I got shag Carpet, Prince Charming,

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Speaker 1: You mean to tell me there is another solar system

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Speaker 1: monto Wolton state of shock right now? All right? So no,

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Speaker 1: What was the thing that made him so special in

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Speaker 1: the wide eyed Benny bright side ice cream all over

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Speaker 1: my hands, chocolate, the whole thing, because that was the time.

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Speaker 1: You know, everything's like this when you're a kid, right,

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Speaker 1: the world just feels amazing. Everything's ahead of you and

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Speaker 1: you feel like you could body slam anything. And and

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Speaker 1: that was Halcogan. So anyway, rest in peace, Hal Cogan.

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Speaker 1: Hapy Holidays. It is I Ben Mahler as we continue

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Speaker 1: this special hour looking back at the year twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: and two of the zanier characters that we have on

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Speaker 1: the show are blind Scott from the North End of

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Speaker 1: Boston and hollering James from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and they got

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Speaker 1: together and started doing impersonations on a random night of

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Speaker 1: another caller, Poppy from San Diego, and laughs were had

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Speaker 1: by all. Take a listen, let's go back and this

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Speaker 1: special holiday edition, we'll take a look back at that moment.

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Speaker 1: So let's see hell Poppy in San Diego. Hello Poppy, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Ben Maller.

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Speaker 3: I just want to say I love the introl. How

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Speaker 3: you you know, listen to your mentor read that intro.

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Speaker 5: Was like fire?

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Speaker 3: You know I loved it. I loved it, and Ben

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Speaker 3: for you know that we're gonna be having Poppy versus

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Speaker 3: Lorena for season two. Right, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: Let me check my notes here. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: see that on the notes. I don't.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well yeah.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't show up, Poppy. You were supposed to

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Speaker 1: show up every week and you didn't show up.

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Speaker 3: And well, yeah, I already know what you were gonna say,

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Speaker 3: Ben Mala. But look, let me explain to you. Poppy

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Speaker 3: is a hard worker. Maybe you know you're saying I

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Speaker 3: didn't show up one week, but I'm always gonna be

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Speaker 3: there for season two. But I was working in the

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Speaker 3: morning all the way to the night. Like hard worker.

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Speaker 3: You know I'm a hard worker, so you know, maybe

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Speaker 3: you know for this time, but I'm not there. We

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Speaker 3: can have like a fake poppy, like weed man, you know,

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Speaker 3: like a fake weed man, have a fake poppy.

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Speaker 1: So who would be a fake poppy? Who do you

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Speaker 1: think would do a good fake poppy?

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Speaker 3: I mean a fake poppy A man. A lot of

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Speaker 3: good callers out there that would do that. I mean, man,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe maybe someone I say, blind Scott

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Speaker 3: on my mind or something like that.

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Speaker 1: All right, hold on a sec hold on, blind Scott.

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Speaker 1: Can you do a fake poppy voice? If poppy came, everybody,

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Speaker 1: it's Poppy.

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Speaker 3: I haven't worked for the past month because I've been

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Speaker 3: taking a pat.

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Speaker 6: Of my car. I got the wheel off, I got

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Speaker 6: my I got my little loop here.

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Speaker 1: All right, wow, okay, all right, hold on his poppy?

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Speaker 1: How is that poppy? Do you like that? It was

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Speaker 1: that a good? Is that a good fill in for you?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, you're you're regretting. Wait wait wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: wait wait, who's talking right now? I don't know who

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Speaker 1: that was. I don't know both lines are up. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure who just said that?

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Speaker 3: Oh that was me? That was me.

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Speaker 1: That was That's a great one, Scott, all right, what

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Speaker 1: about hollering James? You think James would be a good poppy?

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Speaker 1: All right, let me check with him, hold on, hold

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Speaker 1: on a sec. Hollering James? Would you like to be

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Speaker 1: the fill in as the fake poppy? Hollering James? All right,

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Speaker 1: well the real poppy, stand up poppy? Did you like that?

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Speaker 1: Do you think hollering James would be a good poppy?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 3: Man, I love that he made me love, he made me.

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Speaker 1: Laugh, Yeah, he made me he made me cry, he

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Speaker 1: made me cry. Yeah, all right, So that are we

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Speaker 1: gonna settle on hollering James?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Man, I would love to hear other people wandering like

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Speaker 3: a fake.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's see what Toning in the Bay Area? Tony,

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Speaker 1: would you like to be the fake poppy? Toning the

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Speaker 1: Bay Area?

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers looks like a gay whereas Waldough, what.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that poppy? You think that would be

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Speaker 1: a good fake poppy?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Man, I don't think that, all right?

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Speaker 1: Apparently, how about Mike the Leprecaun. I see Michael Leprecaun. Mike, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: would you like to be the fake poppy? Mike the

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Speaker 1: Leprecaun in the Boston area. Would you like to be

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Speaker 1: the fake Poppy Mike the Leprecaun.

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Speaker 5: I will, but don't put me off.

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Speaker 3: Hold out pop picks.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick the changers, and I'd like to then

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Speaker 1: picks annoying, Okay.

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Speaker 4: And ruin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, We're going so good. We were three for three

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Speaker 1: and then we had to go for the fourth and

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Speaker 1: then man, all right, sorry, Poppy, I guess it's gotta

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Speaker 1: be hollering. James. Well, that was very interesting, and no

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Speaker 1: look back at the year on the Ben Malor Show

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Speaker 1: would be complete without taking a look at the biggest

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Speaker 1: night of the year. It's called the Malard Palooza. It's

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Speaker 1: our talent show, it's our spin on the Talent Show.

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Speaker 1: And the big winners this year a duet we had

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Speaker 1: just Josh from Cincinnati and Jays Scoop from Northern California.

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Speaker 1: These guys are senior members of the Mallard Militia. They're

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Speaker 1: so talented. They teamed up to give us a performance

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Speaker 1: for the ages. They were the big winners of the

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Speaker 1: Mallard Palooza. Let's go back and take a listen. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to it here without further Ado the final act

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Speaker 1: of the Malor Palooza. Let's listen.

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Speaker 7: Look, if you had one take one phone call say

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Speaker 7: everything you ever wanted. It's big Glen Mallan. Would you

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Speaker 7: pick up the phone or.

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Speaker 1: Just let it sit?

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Speaker 3: Yo?

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Speaker 9: His car is ready, still has love for Eddie Brobacab.

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Speaker 9: You shun a sweat already like Jed and Fleddy insane,

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Speaker 9: but it's a shame. I feel a donut like Kelly's

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Speaker 9: lepper Kahn, the one who has lubrain a Freddie straight

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Speaker 9: out of Mallattown.

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Speaker 1: Weed Man smells sala.

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Speaker 9: He opens his mouth and his teeth just fell out.

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Speaker 1: He's smoking. How all the lame jokes?

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Speaker 9: So now the clocks run out now, but wins cool.

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Speaker 1: For blast snap crack.

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Speaker 10: There's an injury yoke. The goals that Nubie yoke. The

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Speaker 10: goals would be he joked myself mad. But he won't

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Speaker 10: bring it home like it won't He won't have it.

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Speaker 10: He knows it could be worse to show. When Lega

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Speaker 10: Bama Man no for s time called to show one time. Listen,

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Speaker 10: we know when he goes back to this mobile phone,

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Speaker 10: that's when it's coop screen and crap again yoke this

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Speaker 10: so militia theme. Better go capture this penny and ope

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Speaker 10: it don't be better move yourself from the high seat.

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Speaker 10: It's lop be like pop be your color's gonna.

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Speaker 1: Hit the goat. You will only get one shot. It's

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. This opportunity knocks on the bed of shot.

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Speaker 10: Make yourself like you know g and Cortina not a

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Speaker 10: deal and Donna never let it go.

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Speaker 1: You will only get one shot. It's Fox Sports.

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Speaker 10: Wait, Yo, this opportunity knocks on the matter show.

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Speaker 4: You can do anything.

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Speaker 1: You shut your mind, you wish there. It is what

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Speaker 1: a p performance by Jay Scoop and Just Josh outstanding

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Speaker 1: as they never disappoint those those guys and again these

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Speaker 1: are guys that met because of the show. Just Josh

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Speaker 1: has been listening for many years in Cincinnati, and then

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Speaker 1: Jayscoop is in California. Now he used to be in

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Speaker 1: Seattle and here they are. They teamed up and they

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Speaker 1: put these songs together. Let's go to our our judge

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Speaker 1: inco Terror who again inco Warrior dot com. Is your website?

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Speaker 1: Is that correct? INCA If people want to go and

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Speaker 1: watch you perform somewhere it is. He's got that and

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Speaker 1: Inca performs all over the United States and all over

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Speaker 1: the world. He's a classically trained pianist, very talented man.

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Speaker 1: And you know, people in that world don't want to

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Speaker 1: know about this world, but we love you inco Terra.

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Speaker 1: So final final act here, how did you judge the

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Speaker 1: dynamic duo of Jayscoop and Just Josh?

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Speaker 8: It was You're right, they always do better than they

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Speaker 8: did before, and I would have given.

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Speaker 2: Them a sixteen, but it is pre recorded, so I'm

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Speaker 2: giving them a twelve.

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Speaker 1: Twelve, alright, twelve. I loved it. I thought it was wonderful.

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Speaker 1: These guys have been great supporters of ours. Was pre recorded.

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Speaker 1: I gave Ohio a pretty high score. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: them the same. I'm gonna give it nine and a half.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go nine and a half for Jay Scoop

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Speaker 1: and Just Josh. Lorena. Yeah, they got a ten for me.

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Speaker 1: Ben ten, Yeah, erteen, Kopeloop nine and a half, nine

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Speaker 1: and a half, and my wife said a ten as well.

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Speaker 1: What a fitting ending to this hour. But as you know,

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Speaker 1: in radio hours never end. A special look back at

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Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five on the Ben Malor show

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Speaker 1: happy holidays. We look forward to many great nights together

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Speaker 1: in the year twenty twenty six and beyond. Later, Skater

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Speaker 1: got a murder.

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Speaker 5: I gotta go.