AM Show Hr 3 | Radio History And The Return Of "The Uhm Game"

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air, it's probably a

(00:24):
good time to open the phone lines if someone wanted
to share something that was on your mind. On anything
in particular. We were thinking of maybe playing a little
um game at some point later today, if y'all behave
you know how when you had a substitute teacher and
she'd tell you, you know, if y'all don't shoot spitballs and

(00:46):
don't act like a fool, and don't pull the girls
pigtails and ponytails, and maybe we'll we'll watch a movie
later this afternoon. Okay, okay, And I can remember going, okay,
how kind of like watch a movie. I like to
watch movie. About ten minutes later, I'm shooting spent balls,
pulling ponytails. I couldn't help it, So Ramon will open

(01:07):
the phone lines. In three two one seven one three
nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine
nine one thousand. There are only five congressmen who predate
President Trump's first term. That means they are there over
ten years. They are there before Trump became president. Only

(01:30):
five Republicans, one of them being Congressman John Carter from
Round Rock. Another one being Michael McCall, who was elected
in two thousand and four. I've never been a fan
of Michael McCall. We have kind of an interesting overlap

(01:50):
because McCall's claim to fame, and really his only one,
was that he married into the family that owned the
Clear Channel Radio. The Maze fan and the Maze family
are radio legends. Lowry Mays, who was the founder of

(02:11):
Clear Channel. There were laws that prohibited a radio empire,
and those laws change, but I'll make for the sake
of simplicity, one company could only own two stations in

(02:32):
a market. So you can think back to wherever you
lived and the two stations, and they would cross promote
each other. You know, a company might have a talk
station and a music station. Now, there weren't that many
talk stations. People think there were, but there weren't. You

(02:54):
had Bob Grant, You had some news stations that may
have had slightly more opinionated news anchors. News radio was
somewhat popular, but it did not veer very much into
the political realm. You certainly didn't have what you have now,

(03:16):
where you have pure opinion the way we do on
say our flagship station kat or H and chances are
wherever you're hearing this, they have a lineup of folks
who do what we do. Even the news itself has
embraced more opinion per se, and I think that's largely

(03:36):
a reaction to the fact that what was considered mainstream
news was actually liberal talk for a number of decades,
and listeners demanded you do the same, but from the
proper perspective. So Lowry Mays did something in response to
the early eighties law change that allowed for the ownership

(03:58):
of more than one of more than two stations per market.
So immediately, just like when you see the once it
hits fifty basis points, I thinks where we're really going
to see the big change we get down into the fives,
you're going to see overnight economic activity, which is interesting

(04:18):
because I maintain that there are things because you're going
to see an inflationary an overnight mildly inflationary effect, there
are things that would be cheaper to buy today and
get it today, then to wait until there's a rate drop,
because even with the rate drop, when you look at

(04:39):
the overall cost you're going to outlay for something if
the interest rate to finance, it decreases, but the price
increases due to the overnight demand which was occasioned by
the interest rate drop. You're going to see that in
some cases, especially on a s shorter term, shorter finance run,

(05:03):
it will have made sense to buy now and not
wait for the rate drop. But I get it. Rate
drops become more than anything else, a measuring stick. Everybody
likes to get to say they got the best deal.
You know, it's amazing that car dealers are still in
business because everybody that buys a new car will tell
me how clever they are and how they screwed the

(05:24):
car dealer anything. Huhm wow. It's a wonder they're still
able to do what they do, you being so clever
and all. But in any case, so Lowry Mays was
the legend of radio and industry had an investor named
Red Maccombs. Anybody that spending time in San Anton knows
who Red Macombs is. I owned, among other things, in

(05:46):
Minnesota Vikings at one point and half of San Anton.
Lowry Mays owned this radio company. A clear Channel is
an actual FTC term for a type of radio station,
and Clear Channel was the name of the company He
used to go out and start buying companies like j
Core A in FM, and these companies would have two

(06:09):
stations in Houston and two stations in Baton Rouge, and
two stations in New Orleans and Chicago, and he would
go out and gobble all these stations up, and in
the process it became what came to be known as
the clear channelization of radio. And a lot of listeners
didn't like it. And so what happened is you'd have
your local FM DJ that you really liked at KSEZB

(06:34):
ninety five in Beaumont or at Magic one oh two
in Houston, or whatever those stations were that wasn't a
Clear Channel station, but you'd have your DJ that you
liked in your market. And then Clear Channel would buy
a number of companies that had stations in that format,
and they would pay one guy bigger money with a

(06:55):
bigger personality and spread him. It would syndicate him across
those stations, and so that gave them immense influence and
they owned clear Channel, which, of course when Bob Pittman
and Rich Presler came in with the private equity groups
and bought it and then flipped the name to iHeart

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but that was still the same platform. It was still
the thousand or so stations, and it was still complete
dominance in the talk radio space, including the most dominant
talk radio host of all time, Rush Limbaugh. And Rush
Limbaugh loved them. They signed his checks. One of his

(07:38):
one of his signing bonuses was a G five, And
you know, Rush loved his private jets, a big, plush,
wonderful G five, a Gulf Stream that he could jet
around on. So he loved the Maze family. Sean Hannity
was a Mazed property through Premiere, which is indicator Beck

(08:01):
was Amazed employee through Premiere. You had the three biggest
platforms in talk radio. And when Michael Moore, when Michael
McCall ran, he just kind of walked into those endorsements,
became the ultimate swamp preacher. And thank goodness, he's now

(08:23):
going to retire to become a filthy lobbyist instead of
being a filthy Connors.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
The Michael Mary Show.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
I would love to continue this dissertation on the history
of modern radio. Maybe we will later, but first let's
go to the phone lines. As promised. Let's start with John.
We'll go John Brock and Ken manly Man names. Men, men, men, men, men.

(08:53):
Have you seen the Charlie Sheener documentary? Have you seen it? John? No,
It's really good. Have not. I'm going to tell you
I don't want to spoil the show for you. I'm
gonna give you just a little teaser, okay, just just
to taste. And this is what's gonna shock people about
Charlie Sheen. It turns out Ramon he was really wild. Yeah. Yeah.

(09:17):
When I when I say really wild, I mean, uh,
you're thinking, well, he didn't stick stuff up his butt,
did he? Yeah, that's the least stuff. It's what he
stuck up his butt. Uh, it's what he put in
his mouth, who he associated with? Uh, it's not it's

(09:38):
not did he take drugs? It's how much? And when
I mean it's uh, it's and I love you know.
I geek out over this stuff. Uh not as bad
as Chance proclaim, because it's his business, but I geek
out over this stuff. I first have to see on
a documentary what the narrative style is going to be.
The narrative style is they've got him in a diner

(10:00):
where all the lights are out. Because they pull back
and they close in on the shot, they zoom in on
the shot. He's sitting at a corner booth in a
diner with the like Chesterfield, you know, button down leather,
pleather backing, and then there's the the yellow ketchup squirter,

(10:21):
I'm sorry, the red ketchup squirtter, the yellow mustard squirtter,
and then the little tray that they bring that's got
your your salt and your pepper and all that, and
it's him sipping a cup of coffee, telling you stories,
and then they're weaving the photos in. John, it's really good.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Yeah, we'll be watching that.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Then this week, what's your middle name?

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Watch?

Speaker 3 (10:45):
My middle name is Harold j h Okay.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
John Harold is Harold a family name? Is that your uncle,
your father's brother.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
I don't know. My grandfather was John Harold. I'm the
third so I'm not sure about my great grandfather.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So your father was John? That was his obviously, Yes, sir.
Do you have a son, Yes, sir? And is he
John Harold? Yes?

Speaker 2 (11:13):
He is.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
When I was stating my wife before we got married, we're,
you know, seeing where all this was going, and we
were talking about, you know, you know, in the future,
I said, hey, you know the one thing that that
you know, my one my one, My one item is
if we're looking up having kids and if we have
a boy, he's got to be the force. And she
was like, okay, I'm like all right.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Bet, let's get to it.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Hey, well that was sirr there is so well.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Does anybody ever call you triple sticks?

Speaker 5 (11:47):
No?

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I mean Trey a little bit, but.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Uh well, Johnny Baker, who played for the Oilers, is
Johnny Hendricks Baker, so he's also a JH. The third.
And I had never heard this before, but a friend
of mine named Jim Wise, who was Judge ken Wise's father.
Jim Wise has been one of my mentors over the years.

(12:10):
He was with ken Lay before ken Lay got in
trouble back at trans Texas or whatever whatever the business
was that was in the galleria that was in the
Transco tower. He was whatever, he was one of the
businesses that comprised Transco, and I think he was CFO COO. Anyway,
very wise man, very devout Christian, solid guy. He and

(12:33):
Jane Wise wonderful people, which is how I got to
know his son ken Anyway, he had said to me
at one point, I was running for counsel or mayor
or whatever it was. He said, I want you to
go see Johnny Baker. Here's his name, I mean, here's
his phone number, and here's how to reach him and
tell him I sent you, and tell Triple Sticks that.

(12:53):
And I'm driving off and I'm thinking, Triple Sticks, you
gotta be careful because you don't know if something is
kind of like taking a jab at somebody's bankruptcy or
you know. And I didn't realize until I received a
check from him, and there were the three lines that
Triple Sticks was the third. And I've always thought that
was such a such a clever thing. So anyway, what'd

(13:16):
you call about? My man?

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Hey? I called you hit on a lot of things
that relate to what I do. I worked for the
nation's largest homebuilder, and you were talking about AI getting
rid of some d.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
It's Lenar Lenar okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Or at least for Houston. Yeah, And so like during COVID,
we had closings and we did them all remote as
much as possible because of COVID. Well, now that COVID
is over, we're still doing remote closings so that way
you don't have to have as large of an office
and staff and that kind of thing. It's all done
on your phone. So that's one thing that stayed, uh,

(13:58):
you know, kind of relating to what you mentioned with
A and companies that are profitable but then not as
many jobs. But the real thing that I don't quite
get is I get with interest rates people sitting on
the sidelines with resales. You know, I get that if
it's six and a half or seven or what have you.
But all these builders Leonar Horton, everybody else, like the
top twenty builders in the Greater Houston area, they're offering

(14:20):
four point nine nine to three point nine ninety six
the lenders paying it, yeah, and the lenders doing it.
So like homes that I was selling that were two
ninety five to three oh five, they're in the two
forties because lumber's cheaper. We're not paying seventeen hundred dollars
for a thousand board feet anymore. So our lumber costs
has come down dramatically. That was the biggest cost during COVID,

(14:43):
and we're still doing three point nine nine fixed. So
as a two hundred and fifty thousand dollars home at
three point nine nine to six is eighteen eighty at
six point twenty five. It's twenty one sixty one. And
I just you know, huge difference during COVID, that exact
same four plan. Yeah, that exact same floor plan during
COVID for two ninety five at a three point nine

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nine rate was twenty two oh four. Now it's to
fifty at the set at same interest rate and it's
eighteen eighty. So we're over three hundred bucks cheaper than
we were during COVID at a three point nine nine rate.
But people are sitting around paying red And I'm going, dude,
as soon as as soon as it's herd mentality, as
soon as the race drop, you know, half the point

(15:25):
of what happen. Everybody's going around to buy the home.
They're gonna say, well, wait a minute, well it was
two hundred and fifty thousand back in August or September,
Well why is it to seventy five now? You know
a lot of people have the door trying to buy.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Theseselves John, that's a very good point. You talk about
herd mentality. Everybody wants to buy buy a stock at
it's all time low, but they want to buy that
stock and it's all time low when it's just had
when it's just won the award and been named the
best most stable company in the world three years later. No, No,
the time to buy that was when it was on

(15:58):
the way down. And every it's at the trough and
everybody believes the company's going out of business. That's the
time to buy it. And then everybody then wants to
buy at the price that is the highest price that
stock's ever going to go. When the smart investor is saying,
I've had enough of the hype. I'm getting out. People
who make real money are going against the wind swimming upstream.

(16:22):
And I have seen that in every single industry, the
willingness to take a risk, the willingness to go again
because there's comfort in a crowd, right, And you see this,
and so when the articles say everybody's buying although nobody
is bought yet, then everybody will be buying. It becomes
a self fulfilling prophecy. Great call, you have a great

(16:42):
radio voice of gun Uh brought in the rest of you.
I can't see the names. Hang tight, You'll be first up.
Bizar of talk radio The Michael Arry Show. The phone
lines we go as promise, Brock, You're up first, go ahead,
my man.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Hey Michael, thanks for taking my call. Appreciate it. I
just want to share with everybody my family's got an
issue that has required us to reach out to both
of us, to both the Senators Cruise and Corning, and
then representing McCall. Can't say enough about how good crews
and McCall's offices have been in responding to our questions

(17:23):
and concerns over this issue. Contrasts that to Senator Corner's office.
We've been trying to reach his office since early August,
both by email and phone call and no response. And
it's gotten to the point where I'm so pickheaded that
I pick up the phone at nine point thirty in

(17:43):
the morning and I start calling every office listed on
his website and get no response, and then I'll pick
it up, pick the phone up at two o'clock in
the afternoon and do the same thing. So an anything
that he says, any ads that he says that he
represents Texas and is he or for us and is
fighting for us and whatever he wants to say, yeah,

(18:04):
it's not true because nobody can reach his office, nobody
can talk to anybody in his staff. I don't even
know if he has a staff, because it goes straight
to voicemail, so that's it.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
They're probably working on the campaign, which is illegal. John
Cornyn is such a complete and utter failure. It's it's
an embarrassment. It really is truly an embarrassment, and Republicans
have to own this. I've been asked by a number

(18:36):
of folks, do you think Lenna Hidalgo will even show
up a Commissioner's court Again. I wouldn't be shocked if
she doesn't. I wouldn't be shocked if she just chooses
to stop coming. I feel certain she'll stop coming before
the end of the term. And now I've got Democrats
reaching out to me to tell me how horrible she
is because they want to clear the way for their candidate.

(18:59):
She's not changed. Joe Biden didn't change, Mitch McConnell didn't change.
John Cornyn didn't change. These people weren't once great and
then they fell from grace. Lenna Hidalgo is no stupider
than she ever was, no more a child than she

(19:21):
ever was. Hell, she's had seven years on the job
now she actually understands the job better today than she
did when she took over. They brought you a girl
child that didn't know anything about anything and never learned
it and didn't have the disposition for it. She was

(19:44):
nuttier and squirrel turns, and she only got worse. And
they put together a campaign as as slick as P
Diddy's baby lotion, and they sold her to people as
somehow Hispanic girl Spanish language progress there. She was absolutely,

(20:10):
genuinely and I mean no joke, crazy, boil your rabbit, crazy,
screaming and hollering and tearing stuff up, crazy, the kind
of stuff when cops pull up on it, they step
back for a minute. She's in the middle of what
would be called an episode. Let's wait, she's that kind

(20:35):
of crazy. I can't tell you how many staffers, including
folks loyal to her agenda or her party down there,
have told me how bad it is, how abusive she
is to her own staff. One of the things you

(20:55):
will find down to a person is Democrat politicians are
very abusive to their staff, and their staff who's carrying
their briefcase and driving their car and basically engaged in
all the awful because I'm excited, I'm close to the
seat of power. And then they eventually leave because they

(21:20):
can't take the abuse any longer. You can tell a
lot about somebody by how they treat a waiter when
no one's around, who they don't think recognizes them. You
can tell a lot about people if you find out
if you still have the old fashioned secretary receptionist assistant

(21:42):
that people have to go to to get to you.
You will find out a lot about a person by
how they treat that person if they call your office
and are abusive or dismissive of your assistant to get
to you, and then you pick up, Oh how are you?

(22:05):
Oh my goodness, Because you're the person who makes the
decision to buy their product, or you're the judge that
signs their order, or you're the company that might hire them.
That's a dark soul that has revealed itself. Period. End
of story. Good call Brock, Thank you. Ken aka Kenneth

(22:27):
sometimes called Kenny. You're up, Ken? What you think Ken's doing?
Oh God? What if it's not Ken? What if it's Wren?
What if it's Wren and stimpy and you wrote Ken?
What if it's men? Men? Men, men, men, men, men? Men?

(22:51):
What if it's Ben? Some dudes name rhyme's with Ken
and he's sitting out there going Nope, ain't me. He's
saying Ken, my name's Ben, my name's Finn. I'm not Ken.
I'm not gonna say a word. I'm just gonna sit here.
Oh he hung up? What's the thought process where you

(23:13):
hang up? All right, Well, it's that time in the program. Folks.
We've been about, we've been serious about as long as
we can handle it. So let me tell you the
rules before we open the phone lines. And I want
you to understand something. I don't want to hear a
bunch of appeals and I hear a bunch of whining. Okay,
the judging for the umgame is necessarily harsh. Okay, this

(23:37):
is the boot camp of radio talk show calls. People
are gonna get dumped, and you're not gonna whine about it.
The way the UM game works is, we will give
you the topic. You will have about three seconds and
you will begin talking. You cannot stonewall, which means pause

(23:58):
for long periods of time. You cannot ever repeat yourself,
and you cannot use um or any other filler place marker,
or you will be dropped immediately. It's not nice. It's
not pleasant. It's not fun. It's not for the faint
of heart. It's the MN game, all right. Seven one

(24:19):
three nine nine nine one thousand seven one three nine
nine nine one thousand. You will be on hold when
we go to you. Be ready if I get your
name anywhere near correct. Just know Ramon either can't hear,
doesn't care, can't spell. I don't know what your name
might be Tom, and he gives it to me as Tim.
Just figure you're on, you're on, you're up, and you'll

(24:42):
need to make thirty seconds of continuous talk. And it
does have to be about It can't be like the
Latin phrase place markers on the website that half of
you still have on your website, because your website's not
quite finished, but it's gonna be. Just finish a landing
page and be done with it. Can we agree to that, Ramon?
Just finish a damn landing page? How many times have
we had a small business on here is trying to

(25:02):
promote their business and now what's your website? And they go, well,
it's not finished, and you go there and they got
all the Latin phrase place market place markers. Well, why
don't you just put a picture of yourself and say Hey,
I'm Ken. This is the phone number. This is what
I do. If nothing else, at least you got a
decent all right, it's the Umgame. Uh probably don't want

(25:22):
any girls to call up because most girls cannot handle
the UM Game. It's too harsh. It's meant to be harsh,
so get over it. It's going to be harsh. You're
gonna have to drop Ken. I don't see Kenn being
able to make the UM game. He couldn't hardly king
make dish you in a regular call coming out, Michael
Barry put your big boy pants on. Oh yes, if

(25:44):
memory serves, that is too shy by Kajha Gugu, which
signals the beginning of the one and only segment in
this calendar year of the Umgame.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
And Now The Michael Berry Show presents America's favorite game
of and mouth coordination, the.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Game. You've got thirty seconds? Do you have what it
takes to be the champion? We all know the rules
by now. I will give you a set of five
categories from which you may choose a topic. You will

(26:30):
have two seconds to begin. You're going to have to
be fast, and the likelihood is you're not going to
make it, so just prepare yourself for that. Cheryl, We'll
start with you. I'll give you the five topics. Once
you pick a topic, it's off the board. Okay. Once
I give you the five topics, you pick one of
those the five categories, and then we will give you

(26:51):
a topic within those. And those categories are everyday stuff,
pop culture, food and drink, end them, life situations, or
wild card pop culture pop culture, your cat. Your subjects
are Nicholas Cage, Barbie, the Ninja, Turtles, Taylor Swift, Hulk Hogan,

(27:13):
or the price is right. I will take what. Oh yeah, sure,
I think I think we've already kind of ran out
of time on that one. Mike, you're up. Okay, Oh
you'll need to pick. Oh, okay, I'll pick.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
I'm glad you asked. Okay, all right, let's go to Mike.
Is professional wrestling real or not? You have two seconds
to prepare, which is one two and thirty seconds.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Go.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
Professional wrestling is real.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
It is nothing fake about it, except the fact.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
That they do rehearse at times before.

Speaker 7 (27:54):
But when they get out there to fight, they're really
doing what they're doing.

Speaker 6 (27:58):
What you see is what you get it.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
It's real to me.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
It's enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
It's not for everyone, but it is for me. I
think it is. I think it is for me. It
is a repeat. Sorry, it is for me. It's a repeat.
It's tough. Sorry, Mike and Tomball. Go. Your your category
is your category is? Your category is toothpaste. Your your

(28:25):
topic is toothpaste. You have two seconds and go.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Toothpaste is a hygiene product that is used.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
To clean your teeth using a toothbrush.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
We use toothpaste.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
WHOA, whoa? What was what was that?

Speaker 3 (28:46):
All right?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Go ahead?

Speaker 5 (28:47):
He used toothpaste in the bathroom. Toothpaste is a hygiene
product that is used in the bathroom.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
US.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah, he repeated, right, you can't repeat, uh se nine
one thousand, Elijah, Your topic is coffee breath. In two
seconds and go.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Coffee breath not only stains your teeth, but coffee.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Breadth its terrible.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
It smells like you smoked a pack of cigarettes and
took a drink. Honestly, I believe that if you drink coffee,
you need to brush your teeth with twothpastes right after
you drink that coffee. Coffee is not only bad.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
For your teeth, it can also stain your teeth and
while it's staining.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I think that's a repeat. I'm sorry, I think that's
a repeat. Sorry, Jason. You're up. Your topic is going
to be the Price is Right television program in two.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
One go, come on down on the Price Is Right.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
My name is Bob Barker.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
I got some lovely ladies up here, all five, six,
seven of them.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
I'll probably hit the sheets with them.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
We'd like to play plink O.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Ramon has ruled you can't. You can't do an impersonation
and has to be a description thereof there too. That's
a tough ruling, Ramona, that's a tough ruling. Don't shoot
the messenger. Let's go to Windshield. Windshield. You are up
and your topic is clowns at birthday parties. Into one Go.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Clowns and birthday parties, they always show up drunk.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
You overpay for them. They come and they do hops.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Oh there was enough. Elijah. You are up and your
topic is losing your Wi Fi into one Go.

Speaker 6 (30:49):
Losing your Wi Fi can be detrimental to the work
environment because when you're submitting papers and turning your files,
you can lose.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
What happened to him? Let's go to Douglas. Douglas, you
are going to be up, Douglas. Your topic is oh, hello,
yes Douglas. Your topic is root Beer Floats in two
one go.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
Root Beer Floats, I really like him. I actually like
to get the HGB brand ice cream.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
And then my.

Speaker 6 (31:24):
Favorite root beer is Barks because it actually has caffeine.
I've actually made it with Doctor Pepper once, but root
beer is the best.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Ramone has a little bit. You're actually is a placeholder,
which is no different than Scott. You're up, Scott. Are
you ready?

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 1 (31:45):
Your topic is going to be Spaghettio's in two one go.

Speaker 7 (31:53):
Spaghettios is a childhood favorite of mine. It was originally
made by chef boy Rd. It came in a can,
and sometimes you had a really good can opener that
you could use to get it open. Other times you
had to use the kind that was on the countertop. Spaghettio's,
unbeknownst to most people, started out with pasta that is

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actually in the form of a oh and made with
a tomato sauce. Now it's entirely possible to make.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
God for the wind. Well saw, Well done, Scott, well done.
Let's go to Brian Brian, you are up and your
topic is first date Jitters in two one go. Damn,

(32:46):
he didn't even start. Let's go to Scott Scott. You're up. Scott.
Your topic is the middle seat on an airplane in
two one go.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
The middle seat on an airplane is actually my favorite seat.
This one gives you the ability to actually keep both
elbows on a seat there, which continuously seems to be
a topic of actual discussion when people are trying to
figure out what is the true etiquette of being on
an airplane. Personally, I like to have more elbows space

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because I'm not planning on getting up and moving around
while I'm on the airplane there. This allows me to
be able to have plenty of room for any of
my laptops or phone.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (33:37):
How do you run out of time? He hit the
thirty seconds. You ruled against the guy for going thirty
six seconds, when I was surprised you didn't rule personally
as a space marker as a place marker, because it
is personally is not described. All right, do we count

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him as a winner or not? He can call back
next week. Will you move into the front of the line?
All right? If you're on hold. Hang Tight, will record
you for the evening show for a quick um game,
so hang tight the minute we go off the air.
In just a moment, we'll go to you if if

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