February 28, 2025 • 39 mins
Join me in this energetic episode of the Ben Maynard Program as we launch into a lively Friday Night Live filled with laughter and community interaction. Kicking things off is a warm welcome, followed by the thrilling Malort Challenge—a test of daring for those brave enough to join in on the fun. You’ll hear not only playful banter and surprising anecdotes, but also a deeper discussion on responsible drinking, especially as we prepare for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
During this episode, we touch on celebrity birthdays, reliving notable moments through both fun and enlightening facts. A highlight comes from my recent experience as a guest on Larry Reedy’s podcast, where I share insights into the joy of community conversations. The chat adds a layer of connection, making us realize that these exchanges matter.
We culminate with a special announcement about next week’s "drunk show," aimed at delivering an important message on alcohol awareness right before the festivities kick off. You won’t want to miss this engaging and thought-provoking episode! Remember to subscribe, tune in, and join our vibrant community discussions through comments, likes, and shares. Your thoughts and stories are what make this experience meaningful for everyone involved—let’s raise a glass to that!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey there, welcome into the Ben Maynard program.
Thanks for being here.
Guess what tonight is?
That's right.
Give yourself a star if you gotit right.
Tonight's Friday we are live.
So it is Friday night live.
So again, thanks for joining.
I greatly appreciate it.
(00:30):
As you can see, if you'rechecking your time, we're a
little bit late, just a littlebit late, and I gave you all
absolutely no notice.
So I don't expect to have muchparticipation tonight, but we'll
see how it goes.
I mean, you guys are full ofsurprises and so anything can
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happen.
Let me try something here realquick.
First, I'm looking at myself onthe camera.
I think we need to zoom in alittle bit.
Zoom in, yeah, yeah, that'sokay, right there.
Ah, yeah, yeah, that's okay,right there.
Ah, for night.
For now, that's good Cause it'sjust you and I.
It's just you and I tonight, socool, um, anyway, let's gosh
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darn it.
You know what I'm looking athere.
Let me put this banner up.
For those of you who arelistening, you don't see the
banners, of course, but forthose of you who may be watching
, you see all this stuff.
I don't know what's going onhere, but my settings are
getting changed here.
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I don't get it.
Everything is supposed.
I mean, it's all locked in andit's set.
I had to do this last week.
I had to do this last Friday.
If you joined in last week, youremember I was playing with
this.
Okay, now we're back to normal.
So, anyway, thanks for beinghere.
Well, before we get started, alittle bit of housekeeping, a
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With that, there are plenty ofways to take in this show as I
turn off no, I won't turn it offyet, boy right in the middle of
my thing but there are plentyof ways to take in this show for
your dancing and listeningpleasure.
And with that, here we are.
It's Friday night, we're live,and boy, we're really live,
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aren't we?
No prep, no, nothing, nothing.
We're trying to do some of thesame stuff we normally do on
Friday Night Live.
And we're going to have theMalort Challenge.
And for those of you who mightbe new to the program, this
bottle that sits right here onthe table, this is Malort, the
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worst tasting liquor out there.
All right, so if you call inand the phone number at
909-268-5135.
For those listening it scrollsalong the bottom of the screen.
So if you call in, then I haveto take a shot of this delicious
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and I say that ever so lovinglydelicious Malort in this dusty
Mr Spock shot glass with thebean boozled bean, which I think
it's a hot one based on thecolor stuck in the bottom.
Oh there, it loosened itself.
Been sitting here right here onthe table in studio for the
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last week.
That glass has been sittinghere for months.
Sometimes it gets used andsometimes it doesn't.
So whatever ends up in thatglass ends up in my gullet.
So that's the Malort Challenge.
We'll play Stump the Chump Ifanybody calls in with music
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trivia, and you stump me againgot to take a drink of this
beautiful stuff right here.
So that's kind of where we areright now.
I do have I do have a specialannouncement that I want to make
and I'm going to save that forlater on in the show and for
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those of you who know, you know,for those of you who don't,
that's what's called a tease.
Ok, so you have to stick aroundfor the special announcement
and I promise you it really isspecial and not only that, but
it's very, very important, andit is.
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It does have something to dowith this, with this podcast,
okay, so you're going to want tostick around, you're going to
want to listen to theannouncement, and that'll be
coming up in a little bit.
And, like always, I don't knowhow long we're going to go
tonight.
It just depends.
If I have something to talkabout, we're going to talk about
it.
If I don't talk about, we'regoing to talk about it.
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If I don't, then you and I areboth out of here.
So we'll see where it goes.
All right, but before I get intoanything, let's take care of
some business.
Okay, let's see here.
Let's just start with somecelebrity birthdays.
Okay, Today is what?
Today's February 28th.
All right, and let me doublecheck and make sure I got the
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right date here.
Yeah, I think I got the rightday right here.
I don't know how you wouldn't.
But celebrity birthdays.
Now I'm looking at a wholebunch of them on the screen here
and I'm like, okay, yeah,they're not getting any run on
this show, and I'll explain whyin a minute.
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But the first one, luka, Ithink it's Donchik.
He's an NBA player.
As a matter of fact, he waswith the Dallas Mavericks and
just I don't know two, threeweeks ago, was traded to the
Lakers.
So that's actually how I knowthat name.
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I think it is Donchik.
Anyway, luka is 26 years oldand let's see actor Jonathan
Davis.
He's 25 today.
He's 25 today and everyoneknows this name Jason Aldean.
Jason is 48 years old.
So I'm liking that.
That's great, digging thatstuff.
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There's other names on here,but I'm sorry.
Roblox star, reality star,youtube star, tiktok star.
You're not getting any run onthis podcast.
It's not happening, okay, andno, it's not.
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I don't care how much thisprogram blows up, I'm never
going to be a YouTube star.
This is not going to happen,okay.
I'm never going to be, oh,podcasting star.
That's just dumb.
So for them to know that, no,forget it.
Sorry, I'm looking at the.
I'm looking at my iPad righthere.
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Sorry, you're not getting anyrun on this on this podcast.
It's just not happening.
So that's it for our celebritybirthdays, whatever.
We had three, sorry, gang.
So let's move on.
Uh, what else we have?
What else do we have come onhere?
Ah, today, I I love there.
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There's a website.
It's called days of the year.
I subscribe to it, so I get theemails once a week and it gives
me what all the nationalholidays are for each day of the
year.
I subscribe to it, so I get theemails once a week and it gives
me what all the nationalholidays are for each day of the
week.
So today is National Tooth FairyDay, hmm.
So have you heard of the littlevisitor that brings treats to
kids when they sleep?
Wouldn't that be creepy, havinga stranger come into your home
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while you're asleep?
Who else does anything likethat?
I'll give you a minute.
It's fun.
Yeah, when we were all kids, weloved.
We loved losing our teeth,right?
You take your tooth, you put itunder your pillow.
You wake up in the morning andthere's like I don't know, a
quarter or 50 cents under thepillow.
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It's like where'd this comefrom?
It's awesome, it's awesome.
So today's National Tooth FairyDay Also.
Love it.
Also, today is NationalChocolate Souffle Day.
Hey, catherine, today'sNational Chocolate Souffle Day.
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Can I get one of those beforethe show's over From our kitchen
, kitty?
Oh, okay, so, oh, chocolatesouffle.
Love that stuff, love thatstuff.
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Yeah, so, all right.
And you know, let's seeSignificant events that happened
on this day.
Let's see.
Oh, actually, let's go from oldto more current.
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Here we go.
On this day in 1906, americangangster Bugsy Siegel was born
in Brooklyn, new York.
In 1922, egypt was declared anindependent country and I think
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most people in the audience willrecognize this name.
But basketball coach, actually,more specifically, collegiate
basketball coach, dean Smith.
He was one of the mostsuccessful basketball coaches in
NCAA history.
He was born in Kansas this dayin 1931.
Yeah, okay, let's see what elsewe have here.
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Oh, on this day, I do rememberthis.
I do remember this On this dayin 1983, the final episode of
the incredibly popular TV showMASH aired on television and at
the time, and actually for many,many years, it was one of the
most highly viewed televisionshows of all time.
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They say it was at the time itwas viewed by like 106 million
people.
That's incredible.
Yeah, that's just.
And you know what's weird is Idon't want to say it was before
my time, because the show Ithink the show aired from 1972,
1973, somewhere around there.
(12:27):
So it ran ran for about 10 or11 seasons.
Um, now, maybe I was a littlebit young to take it in when it
first started, maybe the firstfew seasons, but as I got older
I watched a lot of televisionand that was a show I never
watched, and I don't know why.
Don't know why, because showsaround that time and on that
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network as well, I watched Allin the family, and and and the
Jeffersons and good times, andso they were all in the CBS
network and I watched thoseshows but for some reason I
didn't take in mash.
I don't know why, but it was animmensely popular show.
It was always, I rememberseeing or hearing about like the
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TV top 10 each week and it wasalways like in the top two or
three, week in and week out forits entire run.
So just an incredibly popularshow.
Let's see what else.
In 1991, the Persian Gulf Warthat was triggered by Iraq's
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invasion of Kuwait and it endedas Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
accepted a ceasefire agreement.
That was in 1991.
On this day Hmm, last, yeah,last one.
On this day Pope Benedict the16th Became the first Pope to
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resign since Gregory the seventhin 1415.
I remember Pope Benedict umcause I believe he was see 2013.
Yeah, I think he was the firstone to take over after Pope John
Paul II, I think so.
I know he wasn't Pope for anincredible amount of time and
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Pope John Paul II.
He was Pope forever, but I doremember Pope Benedict and I
don't remember him resigning,but then again, it was, you know
, 15 years ago or no, I'm sorry,12 years ago, so who knows, but
that's, that's what's going onthis day in history and that's
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kind of that's kind of it there.
So I was off work today, whichwas great.
I loved it, and, um, I hadsomething special happen this
morning.
It was, it was so cool, so socool.
As you, as you all know, um,I'm good buddies with a
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gentleman named Larry Reedy andhe does a podcast out of
Batesville, indiana.
Larry's 86 years old, he's aveteran, he's a great patriot,
he's a great Christian man andhe's got this podcast that he's.
I think he's been doing it forabout two and a half years or so
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, almost three years, and, ifyou're not aware, he was on the
program back in November of lastyear when I did the Veterans
Day weekend celebration.
Larry was one of my guests andhe was wonderful, wonderful.
So this morning I was a guestfor the first time ever on any
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podcast.
So I was on his podcast thismorning and we had a good time.
Let me spell that name for youit's L-A-R-R-Y, r-e-i-d-y Okay,
that's how you spell Reedy andhis podcast is called Larry
Reedy's America.
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You can just look it up.
It's available on all of thestreaming platforms, just like
this one right here, so you canlook it up.
He's got a ton of episodes justcovering a ton of different
stuff.
He'll do this day in history.
He'll talk about pastpresidents and give histories on
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them.
Actually, he does a series onwhiskey and beer tastings.
They do tastings on differentkinds of foods from various
restaurants in the area.
He has people from thecommunity coming in and talking
about things that they doorganizations they're with.
He just does a whole lot ofdifferent things and so it's
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yeah, it's just a.
It's just a potpourri of allkinds of stuff and he is a great
guy.
So I think I mentioned last weekthat three, four weeks ago he
had texted me and asked me tosend him a top 10 list of songs
and a top 10 list of movies youknow my top 10 on each category
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and he did a couple of episodesand he actually read my list of
each one on the various episodesand it was fun.
I listened to those with thegroup of guys that he had and
everybody had their own list andsome of my stuff ended up on
some of the other lists.
It was just, it was good stuffall around.
So then Larry asked me to comeon his show and we were going to
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talk about music.
You want to talk music?
Ok, let's talk about music,about music.
You want to talk music?
Okay, let's talk about music.
So we did and I'll say this wehad a ball, but we didn't just
talk about music.
Honestly, we went for about twohours and larry is just like me
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, he doesn't edit anything, sohe's not editing any of that
stuff out.
So you know, it was a greatconversation, it was good stuff.
We talked about a whole bunchof things.
I've never outside of the highschool newspaper when I was a
senior and got interviewed bythe sports columnist.
I've never been interviewed byanyone, you know, and I don't
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count going on a job interviewnecessarily an interview.
You know what I'm talking about.
So, um, yeah, it was, it was alot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.
We had some, like I said, somegood conversation, just back and
forth stuff, and Larry's agreat guy and him and I have
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really become friends since hewas on the podcast back in
November and we'll just calleach other, text each other from
time to time.
And what was really neat eventhough it was kind of like an
interview, it was more of aconversation.
But what was really neat, eventhough it was, it was kind of
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like an interview, it was, itwas more of a conversation.
But.
But what was so funny is thatour, our conversation today,
this morning, was no differentthan any conversation that we've
previously had on the phone.
We just talk, we just talk andtalk and talk and talk and talk.
And that's the one thing thatyou have to be able to do in
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order to do something like thistalk on the radio or have a
podcast, that kind of thing isyou have to be able to talk, and
Larry and I are cut from thesame cloth, so that was a lot of
fun, good stuff.
So check it out.
It's going to publish, he'llpublish it and it'll be out on
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Sunday.
So this coming Sunday what'sthat?
March 2nd will be the day it'savailable, so you can go out and
listen to it.
Remember, it's Larry Reedy'sAmerica and he also has a
website, larryreedynet.
So, uh, just go check it out.
It's, it's fun stuff, it's goodand, and Larry's a great guy,
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and I already told Catherine, Itold Larry, larry was like hey,
come on out whenever you want.
And I told Catherine, I saidwe're going out to see Larry,
we're gonna go out and see Larry, we're gonna go hang out in
Batesville for a little while.
Maybe Larry will put us up inhis 40 acre spread for a couple
of days, but that would be akick in the pants.
So good stuff, check it out,check it out, check it out.
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Larry's a great guy and he putstogether a really, really good
podcast.
So then earlier this week Ithink you guys all know that I'm
a fan, of course and uh,there's uh somebody, one of the
one of the fans put together aFacebook page timeout for a
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second while I take a drink,okay.
So one of the fans put togethera facebook page called fans of
eddie trunk or fans of trunknation, that's what it is fans
of trunk nation.
And so I'm a member of thatpage and I look at the postings
from time to time and, um,sometimes I'll comment,
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sometimes I'll just something,sometimes I just scroll right on
by, kind of talking about someof the things, some of the
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topics that Eddie likes to coverduring the week, but bringing
kind of a recap element to it,that sort of thing.
What do you guys think?
Does anybody on here thinkthat's interesting or whatever
it might be?
And so I just simply commentedto him.
I said, hey, if you'reinterested in a partner, send me
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a message.
So he messaged me and longstory short, we talked last
night.
Guy's name is Shannon and,coincidence or not, he's from
Indiana as well, not fromBatesville, but he's from
Indiana.
So he called me last night andwe talked oh my gosh, we talked
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like an hour and a half.
What's up with all thesetalkers?
I guess it's a good thing,though Must be something in the
water in Indiana.
But it's a good thing, thoughMust be something in the water
in Indiana, but it's a goodthing.
If you're going to do a podcast,you're going to have to be able
to talk and you're going tohave to tell a story as well.
You're going to have to be ableto to tell.
Tell stories, that will, youknow, keep the listener
listening.
And so we just talked about alot of cool stuff music, wise
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things like that and I'll letyou know where it goes on that.
So there might be a secondpodcast coming, um, not a solo,
uh, not a solo job.
We'll see where that goes.
Shannon and I we're going toget together in the next couple
of weeks and and talk somethings out.
We'll do some, cause he wantsto do a video component to it as
well, just like this one here,and um, so we'll do some, some
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testing, maybe a test show ortwo, and kind of see how it
works out.
And yeah, it's all good, it'sall good.
So I'm crossing my fingersbecause I I think it'd be
tremendous, I really do, and Ilook forward to it.
So, and and like I said firstoff, you're not going to talk to
somebody for an hour and a halfon the phone and not feel like
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you have some commonality, okay,um, just not going to happen
that that conversation lasts 10minutes tops, okay, so it was,
it was good, good stuff.
Shannon seems like a really,really cool guy, Um, and, and I
look forward to it.
So I will keep you all informedas things progress, all right.
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So the reason why I got startedlate tonight is, as I told you,
I was off work and so I was offtoday, did Larry's show, and
then I was just relaxing, justdoing a whole bunch of nothing.
Uh, because I've got a nice,nice work schedule next week and
I'll take take advantage of acouple of days off to to catch
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up on some stuff around thehouse.
So I thought you know what?
No man, I I'm not doinganything today.
And then, of course, tomorrow.
If you were with me last week,tomorrow I'm the best man in
Darren and Rebecca's wedding, sothat's going to be fun, looking
forward to that.
But so I'm just kicking back,just doing nothing.
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Catherine's working, and I wasjust sitting with her in the
living room while she's poundingaway on her keyboard and
getting things done.
And then, about two or two 30,she says oh, uh, we got to go
out to Best Buy in SanBernardino.
Now, of course, not everybodythat watches or listens to this
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show knows where San Bernardinois.
You don't even know where ChinoHills is, but San Bernardino is
about 40 miles.
Yeah, it's probably about 40miles east of here, and so, yeah
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, traffic in Southern Californiasucks all the way around.
And so she says, yeah, we gotto go out there, we got to go, I
got to go check some stuff out.
Best Buy is a client of hercompanies, and so she heads up a
program and kind of overseesBest Buys, and so it's like 3.15
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and we're driving out there andit took us nearly two hours to
get there, and that was a lot ofdriving in the carpool lane too
.
So it just, oh, it sucked, andby this time it was nearly five
o'clock our time when we gotthere and we both decided no,
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when we're done here, we'regonna go a couple doors down to
get some dinner, because I don'twanna be hangry, I just don't.
So after the Best Buy deal wedid, we went a couple doors down
, we got dinner, and good dinner, it was great, everything was
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great.
And then we kind of tried torush home and when we got, when
we pulled in the driveway, itwas literally, I think, 6.59.
And you know we always startFriday Night Live at 7.
But since I didn't give anynotice today, I thought, well,
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I'm going to do it anyhow, andif anybody joins the show,
excellent, and if they don't,well then that sucks for me.
But if I start late, what doesit matter?
Nobody is going to be sittingby their computers waiting for
me to come on the air.
So it's all good.
And and then what's funny is.
We're at dinner and brother Jimis texting Catherine and he's
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saying hey, um, what, what time?
Uh, not what what time.
He asked us something like hey,when Ben is on, when Ben's
doing the podcast, do you wantto share an adult beverage?
You know, we like our barrelaged stouts and so on, and Jim's
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been into brewing his own stuffas well, so he likes to come
over and try it out, although Idon't think he brought anything
that he brewed.
I think he brought somethingover from the brewery.
But Catherine and I weren'teven out of my truck in the
driveway and Jim's pulling up.
Man, he knew when we were goingto be here.
So, uh, you know they'redownstairs in the dining room
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sitting around.
Uh, uh, you know they'redownstairs in the dining room
sitting around.
Uh, I don't know what theirsample.
I think Jim brought a over ablack Tuesday, I think.
So I'll probably take a drinkor two of that.
And, uh, cause, that's goodstuff.
It really is, it's good stuff,and it's even better when you
just kind of take it easy.
All right, um, so that's what'sgoing on.
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That's why we got started latetonight.
That's kind of what's happeningfor the weekend a little bit,
and I don't know.
I see there's some peoplewatching, so by all means, if
you're watching, call in.
Please At least send a comment.
But remember, if you call in, Igot to take a drink of this.
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It's not a drunk show, but it'smy punishment for you engaging.
So here's what we've got goingon, and the reason why I'm
making this announcement thisweek is because what I'm going
to mention takes place nextFriday.
As you know, in the month ofMarch, a big celebration day is
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St Patrick's Day, and then inthe month of May, first week of
May, there's Cinco de Mayo.
Now, what do those two dayshave in common?
A lot of drinking.
So last week I started thinkingabout it I think it was Sunday
when it Next Friday.
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Yeah, next Friday I'm going todo a To keep it comedic and to
keep it light.
I'm going to do a drunk show.
Okay, but it's not for thepurpose of getting hammered,
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because you know that's not whatI do.
It's my public serviceannouncement, because you know
that's not what I do.
It's my public serviceannouncement to this audience
here.
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I'm a huge proponent of drinkingresponsibly.
I'm big about that beingresponsible, not getting behind
the wheel when you've had evenone too many.
It can be even dangerous whenyou haven't necessarily had one
too many but you've stillconsumed.
So, with those big days comingup, I wanted to put this out
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again as a public serviceannouncement and the way it's
going to run down and we'll endup going over and covering the
whole covering the ground rulesnext week, but is I'll be
drinking during the show.
Catherine was going to join meup here in studio, but she
remembered that she's got achurch function that evening, so
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that's where she'll be.
So instead, our daughter, tess,is going to come sit in studio
with me and not just keep mecompany and be a part of the
show, but she is going to alongwith.
You see the effects that alcoholhas on a person, whether they
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realize it or not, as time goeson.
It's a very important thing tome.
Fortunately, if it gets out ofhand for me, my bedroom's across
the hall.
So that's a good thing, a goodthing.
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But I just yeah, it hit me onSunday and I thought, okay, this
is really important.
So let's get this done, let'sget the message out, and I want
to put it out a week before weget into St Patrick's Day, so
that it's not just oh well, ifyou didn't see it on Friday, if
you didn't see Maynard gettrashed on Friday, you're going
to miss out on St Patrick's Day.
You're going to miss themessage because St Patrick's Day
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is Sunday.
I don't want to do it that way.
I want to give.
I want to do it a week inadvance and I want to give it
time for the audience to take itin watch, listen, however it is
, and really get the message.
And we've got some stuff goingon.
That's going to be happening.
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I'm not just going to besitting here at the table just
drinking.
There's going to be a littlemore to it than that.
It's just going to be a regularshow.
So that's what's going on.
That's what we have going onfor next Friday.
That'll be Friday night live.
It's going to be a live stream.
Tell your family and tell yourfriends, really, honestly,
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honestly I know here's my pleaokay, tell your family and
friends to tune in.
I'm going to.
Oh yeah, let me say this I'mgoing to try and start the show
at 6 pm Pacific time.
I have to work next Friday, soit's all going to depend, but
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that's the plan I will put out.
I think I'm going to put out anotification, maybe Sunday,
maybe Monday.
I'll post it on Facebook, we'llpost it on Instagram.
I may try to do a short videothat'll go out on YouTube as
well, just to remind everyonebefore Friday that this will be
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happening.
And I, just like I said, I feelreally.
I just feel really strong aboutthis, and I feel so strongly
about this that I want you totune in.
I want you to have your familyand friends tuning in for an
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hour hour and 20 minutes,whatever it is okay.
I don't know how long the showis going to go.
It really is going to kind ofdepend on a few things, but the
most important thing is it'sgetting the message across to
people, the effects of alcohol,and let you see firsthand how it
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all plays out.
I know that in the past.
Look, I won't sit here and tellyou, the audience, that I've
never been drunk.
I've never driven drunk.
I will say that, and I can lookyou in the eyes and tell you
that.
However, there have beeninstances where I was not the
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designated driver, but I had somuch to drink, and we'll
probably get into it next weekas well.
I don't want this.
I don't want to spend the wholetime talking about next week's
show, but there's been a time ortwo where I wasn't a driver and
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I had a lot to drink on aparticular night and I sat back
and I told myself I understandwhy people get into trouble.
I understand now why it happens, because my mind is telling me
I'm good, but the rest of me,I'm saying there's no way I
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should be anywhere near behindthe wheel of a vehicle and uh,
so that's, that's kind of whereit is and it is a really
important thing to me.
And so I want to kind of justpass along my public service
announcement to you, theaudience next week.
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So that's what's going on nextweek.
Next Friday Night Live is the Idon't know right now, it's just
the drunk show, but you know,I'll come up with something
better to call it.
I think I don't know, right nowit's just the drunk show, but
I'll come up with somethingbetter to call it, I think I
hope, because it sounds terrible.
Anyway, but you know what?
Maybe that's just what it isright.
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So that's really kind of allthere is going on right now.
No sense in just sitting heregabbing away, looking at myself,
looking at the number ofviewers waiting for somebody to
call and nobody does, waitingfor comments and nobody comments
.
It's fine, it's okay, really, Ipromise you.
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But there's no sense in juststaying here tying up time and
taking up your valuable time.
So, but I did need to get thatannouncement out to you because
it's that important.
So make sure you tell yourfamily, you tell your friends to
tune in next Friday.
Be looking at 6 pm Pacific time.
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It could change to the normaltime at seven, but right now, a
week in advance, it's a specialtime of 6 pm Pacific time.
Okay, if it changes, there'llbe notifications out there, all
right.
So with that, as always, thisprogram is available on all of
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Just search the Ben Maynardprogram.
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That is it.
Short show tonight.
Maybe I got to start working itout and getting ready for next
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week, maybe that's why, butshort show tonight.
Greatly appreciate you beinghere.
I love each and every one ofyou.
That is the truth, honestengine.
And, as always, this is the BenMaynard Program.
Tell a friend.
Hey there, welcome into the Ben Maynard program.
Thanks for being here.
Guess what tonight is?
That's right.
Give yourself a star if you gotit right.
Tonight's Friday we are live.
So it is Friday night live.
So again, thanks for joining.
I greatly appreciate it.
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As you can see, if you'rechecking your time, we're a
little bit late, just a littlebit late, and I gave you all
absolutely no notice.
So I don't expect to have muchparticipation tonight, but we'll
see how it goes.
I mean, you guys are full ofsurprises and so anything can
(00:52):
happen.
Let me try something here realquick.
First, I'm looking at myself onthe camera.
I think we need to zoom in alittle bit.
Zoom in, yeah, yeah, that'sokay, right there.
Ah, yeah, yeah, that's okay,right there.
Ah, for night.
For now, that's good Cause it'sjust you and I.
It's just you and I tonight, socool, um, anyway, let's gosh
(01:16):
darn it.
You know what I'm looking athere.
Let me put this banner up.
For those of you who arelistening, you don't see the
banners, of course, but forthose of you who may be watching
, you see all this stuff.
I don't know what's going onhere, but my settings are
getting changed here.
(01:37):
I don't get it.
Everything is supposed.
I mean, it's all locked in andit's set.
I had to do this last week.
I had to do this last Friday.
If you joined in last week, youremember I was playing with
this.
Okay, now we're back to normal.
So, anyway, thanks for beinghere.
Well, before we get started, alittle bit of housekeeping, a
(02:00):
little bit of business to takecare of.
As you know, this program isavailable wherever podcasts are
streaming, available on allpodcast platforms.
So all you have to do is justsearch the ben maynard program
and you'll find it there.
It is boom, okay, and I thinkyou can sub subscribe on uh, you
know to particular podcasts onthese platforms.
(02:23):
So, as you're searching the BenMaynard program and you find it
, then please subscribe, okay,and every time a new episode is
posted, you'll get notificationon it.
Let me change that right there.
Yeah, I'm just doing everythingon the fly.
As I said, we started only 20minutes late, 21 minutes late.
(02:47):
I'll get into that in a minute.
It's not a big deal, nothingspecial, but no notification
today, and there's a reason forthat too, but we'll get into
that.
So again, podcasts or theprograms available wherever you
stream your podcasts, okay, but,like normal, if you can't, if
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you don't want to just listen,and you have to take in some of
this, and I don't blame you ifyou do.
Come on, I'm a lot to look at,right Then, and you're watching
on YouTube, then please just dome a favor, subscribe to the
channel, give me a thumbs up andleave a comment, because I do
reply to your comments.
Last but not least, follow meon Instagram.
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Simply, ben Maynard program.
All one word Okay.
With that, there are plenty ofways to take in this show as I
turn off no, I won't turn it offyet, boy right in the middle of
my thing but there are plentyof ways to take in this show for
your dancing and listeningpleasure.
And with that, here we are.
It's Friday night, we're live,and boy, we're really live,
(03:54):
aren't we?
No prep, no, nothing, nothing.
We're trying to do some of thesame stuff we normally do on
Friday Night Live.
And we're going to have theMalort Challenge.
And for those of you who mightbe new to the program, this
bottle that sits right here onthe table, this is Malort, the
(04:15):
worst tasting liquor out there.
All right, so if you call inand the phone number at
909-268-5135.
For those listening it scrollsalong the bottom of the screen.
So if you call in, then I haveto take a shot of this delicious
(04:36):
and I say that ever so lovinglydelicious Malort in this dusty
Mr Spock shot glass with thebean boozled bean, which I think
it's a hot one based on thecolor stuck in the bottom.
Oh there, it loosened itself.
Been sitting here right here onthe table in studio for the
(04:58):
last week.
That glass has been sittinghere for months.
Sometimes it gets used andsometimes it doesn't.
So whatever ends up in thatglass ends up in my gullet.
So that's the Malort Challenge.
We'll play Stump the Chump Ifanybody calls in with music
(05:19):
trivia, and you stump me againgot to take a drink of this
beautiful stuff right here.
So that's kind of where we areright now.
I do have I do have a specialannouncement that I want to make
and I'm going to save that forlater on in the show and for
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those of you who know, you know,for those of you who don't,
that's what's called a tease.
Ok, so you have to stick aroundfor the special announcement
and I promise you it really isspecial and not only that, but
it's very, very important, andit is.
(06:01):
It does have something to dowith this, with this podcast,
okay, so you're going to want tostick around, you're going to
want to listen to theannouncement, and that'll be
coming up in a little bit.
And, like always, I don't knowhow long we're going to go
tonight.
It just depends.
If I have something to talkabout, we're going to talk about
it.
If I don't talk about, we'regoing to talk about it.
(06:28):
If I don't, then you and I areboth out of here.
So we'll see where it goes.
All right, but before I get intoanything, let's take care of
some business.
Okay, let's see here.
Let's just start with somecelebrity birthdays.
Okay, Today is what?
Today's February 28th.
All right, and let me doublecheck and make sure I got the
(06:51):
right date here.
Yeah, I think I got the rightday right here.
I don't know how you wouldn't.
But celebrity birthdays.
Now I'm looking at a wholebunch of them on the screen here
and I'm like, okay, yeah,they're not getting any run on
this show, and I'll explain whyin a minute.
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But the first one, luka, Ithink it's Donchik.
He's an NBA player.
As a matter of fact, he waswith the Dallas Mavericks and
just I don't know two, threeweeks ago, was traded to the
Lakers.
So that's actually how I knowthat name.
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I think it is Donchik.
Anyway, luka is 26 years oldand let's see actor Jonathan
Davis.
He's 25 today.
He's 25 today and everyoneknows this name Jason Aldean.
Jason is 48 years old.
So I'm liking that.
That's great, digging thatstuff.
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There's other names on here,but I'm sorry.
Roblox star, reality star,youtube star, tiktok star.
You're not getting any run onthis podcast.
It's not happening, okay, andno, it's not.
(08:16):
I don't care how much thisprogram blows up, I'm never
going to be a YouTube star.
This is not going to happen,okay.
I'm never going to be, oh,podcasting star.
That's just dumb.
So for them to know that, no,forget it.
Sorry, I'm looking at the.
I'm looking at my iPad righthere.
(08:36):
Sorry, you're not getting anyrun on this on this podcast.
It's just not happening.
So that's it for our celebritybirthdays, whatever.
We had three, sorry, gang.
So let's move on.
Uh, what else we have?
What else do we have come onhere?
Ah, today, I I love there.
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There's a website.
It's called days of the year.
I subscribe to it, so I get theemails once a week and it gives
me what all the nationalholidays are for each day of the
year.
I subscribe to it, so I get theemails once a week and it gives
me what all the nationalholidays are for each day of the
week.
So today is National Tooth FairyDay, hmm.
So have you heard of the littlevisitor that brings treats to
kids when they sleep?
Wouldn't that be creepy, havinga stranger come into your home
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while you're asleep?
Who else does anything likethat?
I'll give you a minute.
It's fun.
Yeah, when we were all kids, weloved.
We loved losing our teeth,right?
You take your tooth, you put itunder your pillow.
You wake up in the morning andthere's like I don't know, a
quarter or 50 cents under thepillow.
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It's like where'd this comefrom?
It's awesome, it's awesome.
So today's National Tooth FairyDay Also.
Love it.
Also, today is NationalChocolate Souffle Day.
Hey, catherine, today'sNational Chocolate Souffle Day.
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Can I get one of those beforethe show's over From our kitchen
, kitty?
Oh, okay, so, oh, chocolatesouffle.
Love that stuff, love thatstuff.
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Yeah, so, all right.
And you know, let's seeSignificant events that happened
on this day.
Let's see.
Oh, actually, let's go from oldto more current.
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Here we go.
On this day in 1906, americangangster Bugsy Siegel was born
in Brooklyn, new York.
In 1922, egypt was declared anindependent country and I think
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most people in the audience willrecognize this name.
But basketball coach, actually,more specifically, collegiate
basketball coach, dean Smith.
He was one of the mostsuccessful basketball coaches in
NCAA history.
He was born in Kansas this dayin 1931.
Yeah, okay, let's see what elsewe have here.
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Oh, on this day, I do rememberthis.
I do remember this On this dayin 1983, the final episode of
the incredibly popular TV showMASH aired on television and at
the time, and actually for many,many years, it was one of the
most highly viewed televisionshows of all time.
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They say it was at the time itwas viewed by like 106 million
people.
That's incredible.
Yeah, that's just.
And you know what's weird is Idon't want to say it was before
my time, because the show Ithink the show aired from 1972,
1973, somewhere around there.
(12:27):
So it ran ran for about 10 or11 seasons.
Um, now, maybe I was a littlebit young to take it in when it
first started, maybe the firstfew seasons, but as I got older
I watched a lot of televisionand that was a show I never
watched, and I don't know why.
Don't know why, because showsaround that time and on that
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network as well, I watched Allin the family, and and and the
Jeffersons and good times, andso they were all in the CBS
network and I watched thoseshows but for some reason I
didn't take in mash.
I don't know why, but it was animmensely popular show.
It was always, I rememberseeing or hearing about like the
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TV top 10 each week and it wasalways like in the top two or
three, week in and week out forits entire run.
So just an incredibly popularshow.
Let's see what else.
In 1991, the Persian Gulf Warthat was triggered by Iraq's
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invasion of Kuwait and it endedas Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
accepted a ceasefire agreement.
That was in 1991.
On this day Hmm, last, yeah,last one.
On this day Pope Benedict the16th Became the first Pope to
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resign since Gregory the seventhin 1415.
I remember Pope Benedict umcause I believe he was see 2013.
Yeah, I think he was the firstone to take over after Pope John
Paul II, I think so.
I know he wasn't Pope for anincredible amount of time and
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Pope John Paul II.
He was Pope forever, but I doremember Pope Benedict and I
don't remember him resigning,but then again, it was, you know
, 15 years ago or no, I'm sorry,12 years ago, so who knows, but
that's, that's what's going onthis day in history and that's
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kind of that's kind of it there.
So I was off work today, whichwas great.
I loved it, and, um, I hadsomething special happen this
morning.
It was, it was so cool, so socool.
As you, as you all know, um,I'm good buddies with a
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gentleman named Larry Reedy andhe does a podcast out of
Batesville, indiana.
Larry's 86 years old, he's aveteran, he's a great patriot,
he's a great Christian man andhe's got this podcast that he's.
I think he's been doing it forabout two and a half years or so
(15:29):
, almost three years, and, ifyou're not aware, he was on the
program back in November of lastyear when I did the Veterans
Day weekend celebration.
Larry was one of my guests andhe was wonderful, wonderful.
So this morning I was a guestfor the first time ever on any
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podcast.
So I was on his podcast thismorning and we had a good time.
Let me spell that name for youit's L-A-R-R-Y, r-e-i-d-y Okay,
that's how you spell Reedy andhis podcast is called Larry
Reedy's America.
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You can just look it up.
It's available on all of thestreaming platforms, just like
this one right here, so you canlook it up.
He's got a ton of episodes justcovering a ton of different
stuff.
He'll do this day in history.
He'll talk about pastpresidents and give histories on
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them.
Actually, he does a series onwhiskey and beer tastings.
They do tastings on differentkinds of foods from various
restaurants in the area.
He has people from thecommunity coming in and talking
about things that they doorganizations they're with.
He just does a whole lot ofdifferent things and so it's
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yeah, it's just a.
It's just a potpourri of allkinds of stuff and he is a great
guy.
So I think I mentioned last weekthat three, four weeks ago he
had texted me and asked me tosend him a top 10 list of songs
and a top 10 list of movies youknow my top 10 on each category
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and he did a couple of episodesand he actually read my list of
each one on the various episodesand it was fun.
I listened to those with thegroup of guys that he had and
everybody had their own list andsome of my stuff ended up on
some of the other lists.
It was just, it was good stuffall around.
So then Larry asked me to comeon his show and we were going to
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talk about music.
You want to talk music?
Ok, let's talk about music,about music.
You want to talk music?
Okay, let's talk about music.
So we did and I'll say this wehad a ball, but we didn't just
talk about music.
Honestly, we went for about twohours and larry is just like me
(18:15):
, he doesn't edit anything, sohe's not editing any of that
stuff out.
So you know, it was a greatconversation, it was good stuff.
We talked about a whole bunchof things.
I've never outside of the highschool newspaper when I was a
senior and got interviewed bythe sports columnist.
I've never been interviewed byanyone, you know, and I don't
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count going on a job interviewnecessarily an interview.
You know what I'm talking about.
So, um, yeah, it was, it was alot of fun.
It was a lot of fun.
We had some, like I said, somegood conversation, just back and
forth stuff, and Larry's agreat guy and him and I have
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really become friends since hewas on the podcast back in
November and we'll just calleach other, text each other from
time to time.
And what was really neat eventhough it was kind of like an
interview, it was more of aconversation.
But what was really neat, eventhough it was, it was kind of
(19:16):
like an interview, it was, itwas more of a conversation.
But.
But what was so funny is thatour, our conversation today,
this morning, was no differentthan any conversation that we've
previously had on the phone.
We just talk, we just talk andtalk and talk and talk and talk.
And that's the one thing thatyou have to be able to do in
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order to do something like thistalk on the radio or have a
podcast, that kind of thing isyou have to be able to talk, and
Larry and I are cut from thesame cloth, so that was a lot of
fun, good stuff.
So check it out.
It's going to publish, he'llpublish it and it'll be out on
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Sunday.
So this coming Sunday what'sthat?
March 2nd will be the day it'savailable, so you can go out and
listen to it.
Remember, it's Larry Reedy'sAmerica and he also has a
website, larryreedynet.
So, uh, just go check it out.
It's, it's fun stuff, it's goodand, and Larry's a great guy,
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and I already told Catherine, Itold Larry, larry was like hey,
come on out whenever you want.
And I told Catherine, I saidwe're going out to see Larry,
we're gonna go out and see Larry, we're gonna go hang out in
Batesville for a little while.
Maybe Larry will put us up inhis 40 acre spread for a couple
of days, but that would be akick in the pants.
So good stuff, check it out,check it out, check it out.
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Larry's a great guy and he putstogether a really, really good
podcast.
So then earlier this week Ithink you guys all know that I'm
a fan, of course and uh,there's uh somebody, one of the
one of the fans put together aFacebook page timeout for a
(21:20):
second while I take a drink,okay.
So one of the fans put togethera facebook page called fans of
eddie trunk or fans of trunknation, that's what it is fans
of trunk nation.
And so I'm a member of thatpage and I look at the postings
from time to time and, um,sometimes I'll comment,
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sometimes I'll just something,sometimes I just scroll right on
by, kind of talking about someof the things, some of the
(22:11):
topics that Eddie likes to coverduring the week, but bringing
kind of a recap element to it,that sort of thing.
What do you guys think?
Does anybody on here thinkthat's interesting or whatever
it might be?
And so I just simply commentedto him.
I said, hey, if you'reinterested in a partner, send me
(22:35):
a message.
So he messaged me and longstory short, we talked last
night.
Guy's name is Shannon and,coincidence or not, he's from
Indiana as well, not fromBatesville, but he's from
Indiana.
So he called me last night andwe talked oh my gosh, we talked
(23:00):
like an hour and a half.
What's up with all thesetalkers?
I guess it's a good thing,though Must be something in the
water in Indiana.
But it's a good thing, thoughMust be something in the water
in Indiana, but it's a goodthing.
If you're going to do a podcast,you're going to have to be able
to talk and you're going tohave to tell a story as well.
You're going to have to be ableto to tell.
Tell stories, that will, youknow, keep the listener
listening.
And so we just talked about alot of cool stuff music, wise
(23:22):
things like that and I'll letyou know where it goes on that.
So there might be a secondpodcast coming, um, not a solo,
uh, not a solo job.
We'll see where that goes.
Shannon and I we're going toget together in the next couple
of weeks and and talk somethings out.
We'll do some, cause he wantsto do a video component to it as
well, just like this one here,and um, so we'll do some, some
(23:49):
testing, maybe a test show ortwo, and kind of see how it
works out.
And yeah, it's all good, it'sall good.
So I'm crossing my fingersbecause I I think it'd be
tremendous, I really do, and Ilook forward to it.
So, and and like I said firstoff, you're not going to talk to
somebody for an hour and a halfon the phone and not feel like
(24:11):
you have some commonality, okay,um, just not going to happen
that that conversation lasts 10minutes tops, okay, so it was,
it was good, good stuff.
Shannon seems like a really,really cool guy, Um, and, and I
look forward to it.
So I will keep you all informedas things progress, all right.
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So the reason why I got startedlate tonight is, as I told you,
I was off work and so I was offtoday, did Larry's show, and
then I was just relaxing, justdoing a whole bunch of nothing.
Uh, because I've got a nice,nice work schedule next week and
I'll take take advantage of acouple of days off to to catch
(24:57):
up on some stuff around thehouse.
So I thought you know what?
No man, I I'm not doinganything today.
And then, of course, tomorrow.
If you were with me last week,tomorrow I'm the best man in
Darren and Rebecca's wedding, sothat's going to be fun, looking
forward to that.
But so I'm just kicking back,just doing nothing.
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Catherine's working, and I wasjust sitting with her in the
living room while she's poundingaway on her keyboard and
getting things done.
And then, about two or two 30,she says oh, uh, we got to go
out to Best Buy in SanBernardino.
Now, of course, not everybodythat watches or listens to this
(25:46):
show knows where San Bernardinois.
You don't even know where ChinoHills is, but San Bernardino is
about 40 miles.
Yeah, it's probably about 40miles east of here, and so, yeah
(26:07):
, traffic in Southern Californiasucks all the way around.
And so she says, yeah, we gotto go out there, we got to go, I
got to go check some stuff out.
Best Buy is a client of hercompanies, and so she heads up a
program and kind of overseesBest Buys, and so it's like 3.15
(26:30):
and we're driving out there andit took us nearly two hours to
get there, and that was a lot ofdriving in the carpool lane too
.
So it just, oh, it sucked, andby this time it was nearly five
o'clock our time when we gotthere and we both decided no,
(26:51):
when we're done here, we'regonna go a couple doors down to
get some dinner, because I don'twanna be hangry, I just don't.
So after the Best Buy deal wedid, we went a couple doors down
, we got dinner, and good dinner, it was great, everything was
(27:13):
great.
And then we kind of tried torush home and when we got, when
we pulled in the driveway, itwas literally, I think, 6.59.
And you know we always startFriday Night Live at 7.
But since I didn't give anynotice today, I thought, well,
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I'm going to do it anyhow, andif anybody joins the show,
excellent, and if they don't,well then that sucks for me.
But if I start late, what doesit matter?
Nobody is going to be sittingby their computers waiting for
me to come on the air.
So it's all good.
And and then what's funny is.
We're at dinner and brother Jimis texting Catherine and he's
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saying hey, um, what, what time?
Uh, not what what time.
He asked us something like hey,when Ben is on, when Ben's
doing the podcast, do you wantto share an adult beverage?
You know, we like our barrelaged stouts and so on, and Jim's
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been into brewing his own stuffas well, so he likes to come
over and try it out, although Idon't think he brought anything
that he brewed.
I think he brought somethingover from the brewery.
But Catherine and I weren'teven out of my truck in the
driveway and Jim's pulling up.
Man, he knew when we were goingto be here.
So, uh, you know they'redownstairs in the dining room
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sitting around.
Uh, uh, you know they'redownstairs in the dining room
sitting around.
Uh, I don't know what theirsample.
I think Jim brought a over ablack Tuesday, I think.
So I'll probably take a drinkor two of that.
And, uh, cause, that's goodstuff.
It really is, it's good stuff,and it's even better when you
just kind of take it easy.
All right, um, so that's what'sgoing on.
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That's why we got started latetonight.
That's kind of what's happeningfor the weekend a little bit,
and I don't know.
I see there's some peoplewatching, so by all means, if
you're watching, call in.
Please At least send a comment.
But remember, if you call in, Igot to take a drink of this.
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It's not a drunk show, but it'smy punishment for you engaging.
So here's what we've got goingon, and the reason why I'm
making this announcement thisweek is because what I'm going
to mention takes place nextFriday.
As you know, in the month ofMarch, a big celebration day is
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St Patrick's Day, and then inthe month of May, first week of
May, there's Cinco de Mayo.
Now, what do those two dayshave in common?
A lot of drinking.
So last week I started thinkingabout it I think it was Sunday
when it Next Friday.
(30:20):
Yeah, next Friday I'm going todo a To keep it comedic and to
keep it light.
I'm going to do a drunk show.
Okay, but it's not for thepurpose of getting hammered,
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because you know that's not whatI do.
It's my public serviceannouncement, because you know
that's not what I do.
It's my public serviceannouncement to this audience
here.
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I'm a huge proponent of drinkingresponsibly.
I'm big about that beingresponsible, not getting behind
the wheel when you've had evenone too many.
It can be even dangerous whenyou haven't necessarily had one
too many but you've stillconsumed.
So, with those big days comingup, I wanted to put this out
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again as a public serviceannouncement and the way it's
going to run down and we'll endup going over and covering the
whole covering the ground rulesnext week, but is I'll be
drinking during the show.
Catherine was going to join meup here in studio, but she
remembered that she's got achurch function that evening, so
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that's where she'll be.
So instead, our daughter, tess,is going to come sit in studio
with me and not just keep mecompany and be a part of the
show, but she is going to alongwith.
You see the effects that alcoholhas on a person, whether they
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realize it or not, as time goeson.
It's a very important thing tome.
Fortunately, if it gets out ofhand for me, my bedroom's across
the hall.
So that's a good thing, a goodthing.
(32:32):
But I just yeah, it hit me onSunday and I thought, okay, this
is really important.
So let's get this done, let'sget the message out, and I want
to put it out a week before weget into St Patrick's Day, so
that it's not just oh well, ifyou didn't see it on Friday, if
you didn't see Maynard gettrashed on Friday, you're going
to miss out on St Patrick's Day.
You're going to miss themessage because St Patrick's Day
(32:53):
is Sunday.
I don't want to do it that way.
I want to give.
I want to do it a week inadvance and I want to give it
time for the audience to take itin watch, listen, however it is
, and really get the message.
And we've got some stuff goingon.
That's going to be happening.
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I'm not just going to besitting here at the table just
drinking.
There's going to be a littlemore to it than that.
It's just going to be a regularshow.
So that's what's going on.
That's what we have going onfor next Friday.
That'll be Friday night live.
It's going to be a live stream.
Tell your family and tell yourfriends, really, honestly,
(33:33):
honestly I know here's my pleaokay, tell your family and
friends to tune in.
I'm going to.
Oh yeah, let me say this I'mgoing to try and start the show
at 6 pm Pacific time.
I have to work next Friday, soit's all going to depend, but
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that's the plan I will put out.
I think I'm going to put out anotification, maybe Sunday,
maybe Monday.
I'll post it on Facebook, we'llpost it on Instagram.
I may try to do a short videothat'll go out on YouTube as
well, just to remind everyonebefore Friday that this will be
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happening.
And I, just like I said, I feelreally.
I just feel really strong aboutthis, and I feel so strongly
about this that I want you totune in.
I want you to have your familyand friends tuning in for an
(34:44):
hour hour and 20 minutes,whatever it is okay.
I don't know how long the showis going to go.
It really is going to kind ofdepend on a few things, but the
most important thing is it'sgetting the message across to
people, the effects of alcohol,and let you see firsthand how it
(35:09):
all plays out.
I know that in the past.
Look, I won't sit here and tellyou, the audience, that I've
never been drunk.
I've never driven drunk.
I will say that, and I can lookyou in the eyes and tell you
that.
However, there have beeninstances where I was not the
(35:33):
designated driver, but I had somuch to drink, and we'll
probably get into it next weekas well.
I don't want this.
I don't want to spend the wholetime talking about next week's
show, but there's been a time ortwo where I wasn't a driver and
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I had a lot to drink on aparticular night and I sat back
and I told myself I understandwhy people get into trouble.
I understand now why it happens, because my mind is telling me
I'm good, but the rest of me,I'm saying there's no way I
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should be anywhere near behindthe wheel of a vehicle and uh,
so that's, that's kind of whereit is and it is a really
important thing to me.
And so I want to kind of justpass along my public service
announcement to you, theaudience next week.
(36:36):
So that's what's going on nextweek.
Next Friday Night Live is the Idon't know right now, it's just
the drunk show, but you know,I'll come up with something
better to call it.
I think I don't know, right nowit's just the drunk show, but
I'll come up with somethingbetter to call it, I think I
hope, because it sounds terrible.
Anyway, but you know what?
Maybe that's just what it isright.
(36:57):
So that's really kind of allthere is going on right now.
No sense in just sitting heregabbing away, looking at myself,
looking at the number ofviewers waiting for somebody to
call and nobody does, waitingfor comments and nobody comments
.
It's fine, it's okay, really, Ipromise you.
(37:19):
But there's no sense in juststaying here tying up time and
taking up your valuable time.
So, but I did need to get thatannouncement out to you because
it's that important.
So make sure you tell yourfamily, you tell your friends to
tune in next Friday.
Be looking at 6 pm Pacific time.
(37:40):
It could change to the normaltime at seven, but right now, a
week in advance, it's a specialtime of 6 pm Pacific time.
Okay, if it changes, there'llbe notifications out there, all
right.
So with that, as always, thisprogram is available on all of
(38:02):
the streaming platforms outthere.
Just search the Ben Maynardprogram.
You'll find it.
It's there.
Go with it.
If you do that, just subscribeto it and you'll get
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However, if you're joining onYouTube because you just can't
get enough of this right here Iknow I can't get enough of it
(38:25):
then you know.
Thanks for watching.
I appreciate that.
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All right, comments are greatand you know I reply to them.
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That is it.
Short show tonight.
Maybe I got to start working itout and getting ready for next
(38:48):
week, maybe that's why, butshort show tonight.
Greatly appreciate you beinghere.
I love each and every one ofyou.
That is the truth, honestengine.
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