October 25, 2024 • 29 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! He talks: Dodgers, Pasta, Shredded Chicken, Benny vs. Penny Complications, Foodie Fun, Phrase of the Week, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearing
house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
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Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air eywhere A happy Friday to you. It's the
Fifth Hour. I think you already know that with me,
Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio, who will join me
this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. But you're stuck with
just me on this Friday, very early in the morning
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as we are recording this, my god, a very unholy hour.
But we are celebrating the start of Game number one
later tonight, Game one of the World Series at Chavez Ravine.
As Tommy Lisordi used to call it, blue Heaven on Earth,
as the Doyers try to win another World Series against
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the hated Yankees, and the media has had an absolute
field day the last week talking about the Dodgers and
the Yankees and the tradition all that. I get a
kick out of it because a bunch of the players
have been interviewed about this, and not a single player,
not a single player in the World Series was playing
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in Major League Baseball the last time the Dodgers and
Yankees played, nor not a single player was even really
alive on the Yankees and the Dodgers. But nonetheless, they're
going at it tonight and I will not be there.
Some of you have been sending me messages, are you
going to be a Game one of the World Series?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I tried to explain that the Dodgers, once they got Otani,
I was no longer a priority, which is fine. I
am able to watch anything I want on the Mallard TV,
so I'm good, and I'll go out there from time
to time, but I will not beat the World Series
unless I get a last minute phone call from Marlin's man.
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That has not happened. It is the day of Game
one of the World Series, and I have not heard
from Marlin's man, so I'm assuming he's either not going
or he's got somebody else who's most likely a bigger name,
who will go. And the ticket prices are so outrageous
my god, but I actually like did Dodgers chances tonight
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with Jack Flaherty against Garrett Coleble see what happens with that?
In Game one of the World Series. It is also
a big day, I mean, the worlds of the late
Tommy Losorda colliding. You've got the Dodgers in game number
one of the World Series. And today is World Pasta Day.
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Oh yeah, World Pasta Day, which is another one of
those made up holidays. They made this up in nineteen
ninety eight. It was not made by Chef Boyard. It
was not. Now there is a great urban legend which
I'm pretty sure is not true. I'm pretty sure is
not true, but I heard it when I was a kid,
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and you probably have heard it too. The legend is
that Marco Polo Marco Polo imported pasta from China in
the twelve hundreds and that that was the whole love
of pasta in Italy. It was actually a Chinese food
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and all that. Well, likely that is bull crap, because
there was a story years ago that said a Canadian
spaghetti company of all things likely started that urban legend
in the nineteen twenties, about a hundred years ago, and
By the time I was a kid, I had heard
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about it and all that. But if you trace the
origins of pasta, it's been a staple in Italy going
back to the seventeen hundreds. Like, apparently, I haven't ever
been to Italy. The wheat that has grown in Sicily,
in southern Italy is amazing and pretty inexpensive, pretty inexpensive.
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So you've got that, so celebrate appropriately. I don't know
what your favorite pasta is. I'm a Fetichini alfredo guy.
Myself and I used to love spaghetti, but I ate
so much spaghetti. When I was a kid, My mom
spaghetti and meatballs, and then she'd make a lot of
mac and cheese, and I just like, eh, I don't
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mind macan cheese every once in a while, rare and
appropriate spaghetti. I'm over it. I'm good. I've had my
share of spaghetti. It is Frankenstein Friday today, Yes, Frankenstein Friday, which,
by the way, we learned, was filmed at Universal Studios.
The movie Frankenstein filmed at Universal Studios on the back lot,
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not far away from where we filmed Benny Versus the Penny. Oh,
by the way, that's right, that's right, you know what
time it is? Ding ding, ding ding ding. Yes, time
for me to Shamelelly. See me promote the week eight,
Week eight of Benny Versus Payne. Now, last night I
took the Vikings. They of course lost the game. They
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were favored by a few points against the Rams. Sam
Darnold pooped the Bed played well for one quarter and
then not so much the final three quarters of the game.
But I'm okay with that. And I've said this a
lot time. If you're a big fan and you dabbling gambling,
but you're ultimately a fan, it's called sports fan insurance,
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and it's one of the coolest things you can do
if you love your team. And I'm a Ram fan.
But I looked at the game. At the time I
handicapped the game, I had to submit my my picks
to the big Kahunas at NBC bye you a certain hour.
I don't want to get into all the details and
all that. You don't need to know about that, but
my deadline. By the time my deadline to submit the
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picks had shown up, I did not know for sure
that Cooper Cup was going to play, and I had
no knowledge that Puka Nakua was going to play. Had
I known that they were both going to play, I
likely would have flipped my pick. But you know, bygones bye, bygones,
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I did not took the took the vikings, but I
wasn't upset. I lost the game, and I'm fine with
that because the Rams won, so I was happy about that.
But it's Week eight in the NFL. We got every
game covered. We make our maiden voyage again. We kick
off a new week here on NBC Sports Boston tonight,
also NBC Sports Philadelphia in San Francisco, all the other
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regional cable channels associated with NBC. And because of you,
I want you to know, mainly because of the people
on this podcast that were complaining when I said, oh,
I can't watch your show, I don't have you know,
I want to live in a city where the show's on,
and you're complaining about this, that and the other thing.
So I then took your complaints and I went to
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the few people I know at NBC and I was like,
you know, these guys really want to be on the Peacock.
They want access to the show. They say they'll watch,
and they said, are you sure they're actually going to watch,
and I said, well, yeah, I think they're gonna watch.
They say they're going to watch, but I don't know
if they're going to actually watch. I'd like them to watch.
They claim they want to watch, and so heya. One
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thing led to another and here we are. So we're
on Peacock now. It's not on right now. And I've
noticed the trend here the last month where I'll be like, hey,
I watched the show. The podcast goes up, and then
I get a message I looked on Peacock and I
didn't see the show. I don't control when the show
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gets uploaded. I have no control. The show is in
the can. We did the show on Thursday, right We
did the show on Thursday before the Ram Viking game.
So we've done the show. The show is ready to go,
but they have to edit it and they have to
address it up and make us look like somewhat civilized
human beings and not Neanderthals. So that's part of it.
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But it'll be up today late afternoon. I know my
buddy Sports with Coleman and Baltimore. He sends me a
message every Friday, I don't see your show. What's going
on with that want. He wants me to have him
have the show published by I think noon, which I'm
all for. I have no problem with that. But again
I don't I don't control it. So watch it tonight
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and then watch the world series, and then watch it
again and again and again and again. We had a
lot of fun this week. It was interesting. Now one
of the main reasons that this was interesting. I wanted
to go a little bit behind the microphone. And this
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is a companion podcast about the radio show and the
original Recipe radio show and also the TV show. So
many of you, I say many. I got like five emails.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Sudden you were not going to take any time off
and you didn't show up to work and I don't understand,
and you ruin my whole day and it's not right
and it's not fair and I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, well that was not a scheduled deb Actually I
wanted to find there's one email, but there were a couple.
See if I can find it here. Just bear with me.
La la la la la la la la la la
la la la la. Because several of you sent very
passionate letters that I got a kick out. I was like, Wow,
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I had no idea that me barking into a microphone
about some random nonsense would inspire this kind of commentary.
But here we are. Well, here's one I don't have.
The other one I don't have. This one's from listener Anthony,
who is a big fan. He says, Ben, I listened
to your podcast while working out at the gym. It
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motivates me more than listening to Metallica while on meth.
That's wild, Anthony, A sports radio podcast motivates you while
working out to my cha grin. He then rips the
person that fill in for me, so you know how
your legs fall asleep when you have sat on the
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toilet for an hour or two long. He then goes
on and rants and rants, and rants and rants. I
am the guy who recites the pledge with each new
mal or militia member. Please, if you cannot find someone
half as smart as you, how about someone who is
half as entertaining, well, listen, I don't know what happened
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when I wasn't there, Anthony. Thank you for your support.
And I do love that whoever dares fill in for
me is public enemy number one. And it is a
blessing and a curse and as you know, Anthony, you're
likely pumping weight right now in the gym, pumping iron.
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Here's the deal. The type of radio show that we
do is, I would say, in the modern sports radio game.
It's unique. But maybe not. Maybe there's other people that
sound just like me, and I don't know about them.
I don't listen to everything. I don't listen to much
sports radio at all because I don't want to copy
what somebody else's doing. However, I do believe that aside
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from all the puffery and all that, we have something
that's rather rather unique, you know, and whether that's good
or bad. You know, some people absolutely hate it and
they believe it goes together like toothpaste and orange juice,
and it's just disgusting. And why are you on the radio?
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And I always get, well, you're on and in the
middle of the night, and that's why your show is terrible.
And that's the bottom line, and this, that and the
other thing. And then I have other people like this guy,
Anthony and some others that I can't find the email
right now, we're like, I love the show. I listen.
You're a cornerstone, right You're the centerpiece of my day.
So Fortunately, there's more people like Anthony then there are
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people that hate the show. And I've never understood, and
I will never understand. I'm in the radio business my
entire adult life. I will never understan and how people
have this weird relationship with radio, especially talk radio, where
if you don't like a talk show host, you have
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to let them know you don't like. If I if
I go to a restaurant, I look at the menu.
We do this all the time. We go to travel somewhere, meanwife, Hey,
can we look at the menu? And THO, the maj
or d will hand you the menu and you'll look
and you get some eggs over there, you know, I
guess some kind of mixed things, some food processing crap
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over there. Andy, Well, it's not really for me. You
hand the menu back very politely, and you walk out,
and you walk to the next restaurant. And there doesn't
need to be a tug of war. But yet in
sports radio it's I must have my opinion heard, and
I don't like your opinion. You're a schmuck, and I'm
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gonna let you know. It's just I get a kick.
I am at I think that if that stopped, I
wouldn't like it. I'd be like, am I doing something wrong?
Having strong opinions and all. So. So it's one of
those weird things that it kind of crisscrosses between it's dumb.
But then if you don't have people randomly sending you messages,
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then then there's a problem. I'm still getting people randomly,
you know, I'll make some passing reference politically and somebody,
you know, some triggered so and so will oh I, Chad,
listen to your show anymore? And we are heading towards
the epicenter. The trade deadline in the NFL is November fifth, However,
that is also the day of the election, and it
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is going to be wild. It's always wild. This is
one thing that's changed in my lifetime. These presidential elections.
There are always a big deal. Like when I was
a little kid, you know, my parents were into politics.
My mom was was liberal, my dad was conservative, and
so they would debate the issues of the day and
they do back and forth and this that and the
other thing, and it was a big deal. But the
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last twenty five years, it started with that hanging chad thing.
It's next level. It has attracted every whack job in
the world. There's nothing like it. There's no show quite
like a presidential election. The country is so split, it's
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next level. I'm getting off on a tangent here, but
thank you all for your support on the show. As
I often end up paddling my own canoe and again
when somebody fills in, it's different. But I appreciate you
letting me know. It's good to be missed. Got to
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be missed now one of the reasons I was away.
In fact, the main reason I was away was not
to go to the Clipper game. Eddie last night took
off to go to the hockey game, which is fine.
He's got time off. He didn't want to do the show.
He wanted to do the hockey. More power to In
my case, I made a tactical decision. If you're listening
to this podcast, and there's no other way to hear
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it other than listening, you know that my voice likely
sounds a little more How should I describe it? Punch
it a raspy, a little more rasp to my voice.
You can hear it, right, you can hear it. I
don't sound exactly the same. I sound close, but not
exactly the same. And there's a reason for that. I've
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been baddling like a little head cold type situation. I
did do the garlic and I was able to do
the show. And over the years, I've been doing this
a long time, and I do treat my voice like
a musical instrument. That that is my moneymaker. If you're
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a prostitute, you have a different money maker. If you're
a professional athlete, of a different money maker. But for
me in my line of work, and I know I'm
doing the TV show now, which is kind of cool
and stuff, but it's really the voice. It's all about
the voice. That is my melody. That is the sweet
harmony that I can provide. And I remember when I
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got into radio. We talked about this on a previous
episode being Danny G when he was there. We talked
about radio and the whole mindset of sports radio in
the early days, and I got in trouble with program
directors because they said I was to FM and I said, well,
I'm just doing the show and I'm not really FM,
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and well, you'll be more AM, which means boring, and
I'm like, I don't want to be boring and so
all that. But as a result, I project. I go
up and down and all around, and I use my
lungs and my throat and the whole thing. I use
the upper part of my throat, my mouth. We all do.
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But I create these vibrations and I've done it long
enough where when I have a head cold with the
proper amount of sucking on rock garlic and other garlic
related remedies from the old world, as Andrea would say,
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probably the pagan witch world. But this garlic stuff, it's
worth the issue This week when I do the four
hour show, and it's a lot more than it used
to be because we do a lot of live reads.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I try to
dress them up, try to put my own touch on
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the live reads and add my flavor to them. Even
though I don't get paid for that, I add my flavor,
So I do that to the show. Is it's extra
and it adds up. And despite everything that I do
to protect my musical instrument, my mouth, it takes a
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fair amount of time once I finished the radio show
to be ready to perform again, to get my vocal
cord set and reset, and there's a hole to do
involving gargling salt water and sucking on garlic and just time.
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There just has to be time. So I did the
show on Tuesday into Wednesday, and I had every intention
when I went to bed of doing the show on
Wednesday and Thursday. My voice was really bad. It was
the consistency of shredded chicken. By the time I had
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finished the show, pulled barbecue shredded chicken, so I knew
it wasn't good. I woke up. My wife was not
feeling particularly good either, just going around and she's like, well,
I'm gonna call him sick. And I said, okay, that's fine,
I'm gonna work and she she then was explaining we
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were doing a cost benefit analysis. He says, well, you
do the TV show on Thursday. It's Wednesday, but you
have to work all night. And then if you work
all night, you don't go to bed before the TV
show is taped. You have to tape the TV show.
Your voice takes X number of hours to get back
to where you can do another show. And she's she's
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doing the math, and she's got her version of math.
I do. I do malar math. She's a malice, So
she does her own malar math and we're crunching the numbers,
and I have this in the cartoon bubble, the soundtrack
of my life. I have flashing in front of me
doing the radio show. My voice completely destroyed. The tone
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quality is terrible, horrific, right, just bad, bad, bad bad.
I'm rasp beat. I have laryngitis, the whole thing. So
in my head, I'm like, well, I'm doing the show.
I sit down, they put the camera on. I'm talking
to Vinnie, the producer in Boston, all these guys, and
they're like, we can't do the show. We can't do it.
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What I'm like, Oh my god, this is terrible. I
got to do the show. There's a lot of people, producers,
people that work behind the scenes, directors, lighting people, camera people.
It's not like a radio show. I mean there's a
lot of moving parts, right, there's a lot of moving
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parts of a TV show. One of the reasons I
love radio. It's pretty much just me and you and
there's somebody putting the buttons on and occasionally some other
people will chime in. But ultimately, if Eddie's not there,
the show's the same. If Coop's not there, you don't notice.
And as long as the mic is on the show's
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there and I can present the show. So in television,
obviously there's a lot more involved. And I didn't want
I didn't want to let those people down as I
had the sick time. I've been saving sick days for
ten years, and so I took the night off and
I watched the Clipper game, and I stayed up. I
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didn't go to bed, I stayed up. I just rested
my voice. I did some garlic, I sucked on some
rock garlic, I did some gargling, the whole thing, and
fortunately my voice held up. I was able to do
the TV show and it went pretty well. You'll be
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the judge of that again. It'll start airing later today,
and I thought my voice was relatively solid, much better
than it would have been had I done the radio show.
And didn't want to take any chances, because you know,
not that I it's not only the fact that there's
a lot of people depending on me for the TV show,
it's also I had the sick time. And I don't
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know if you know this, but television pays a little
bit more than radio, just a little bit. A half
hour TV show pays a little better than a four
hour nighttime radio show, which seems impossible but not really
not really time now, time now for what what time
is it? Well, it's time for me to end the podcast. No,
it's not. Because we have the always popular Footy Fun,
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Footy Fun. Let's do it a few items. I'm not
gonna do too many of these things, but some of
the new items coming out and about. And I had
an epiphany. I was driving my A seven eleven. I said,
the number one person to going who goes into seven
eleven and buys their lunch contractors, construction guys, you are
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the boys. Without you, seven to eleven would not be
able to sell as much food. I bring that up.
We have a great number of people that work as
handyman and the contracting jobs, plumbers, things like that. So
seven eleven launching the new five dollars pizza meal deal.
But they also have wait, there's more, the new Philly
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cheese steak pizza. It's available starting October thirtieth, so coming
up next week through January seventh of the new year.
So go to seven of how good could a cheese
steak be? At seven eleven? Let me know that's a
day before Halloween. That thing's going to debut with the
Philly cheese steak Pizza. Now I've made cheese steak pizza before.
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Not bad, not bad. All the ingredients are right there.
You got the bell pepper, the onion, you got the beef,
and you throw in you know, the proper amount of
cheese and that's it. I mean, it's pretty easy, tomato, sauce,
mix it all together. Subway new deserted Subway they've introduced.
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This is right up the alley of alf the Alien Opiner.
Unless it's not maybe more fer Dog the new double
chocolate peppermint foot long cookie. It's available from November first,
so the day after Halloween, through December thirty first, but
wall supplies lest the Subway think they're gonna sell out
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of that thing. That sounds to me like a faux version,
like a faux version of the Girl Scout cookies, you
know what I'm saying. Follow Up to a story we
did last week on Foody Fun, Taco Bell welcoming back
fan favorite menu items from their first fifty years, including
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the tostada from the nineteen sixties, the green Sauce burrito
It's here from the nineteen seventies, shout out in nineteen seventies,
the Mexim Melt from the nineteen eighties, the Gordie from
the nineties. That's the Gordida Supreme from the two thousands,
the Ots caramel Apple, and Panada available for a limited
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time starting on Halloween. Okay, check that out on Halloween. Now.
This one is definitely both disgusting and this is the
one for alf. Jimmy Johns. I don't even know if
they have Jimmy Johns where Alf is. He's out in
the sticks. But if you're nearer Jimmy Johns, Alf, this
is right for you. I wanted to puke in my mouth.
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They've unveiled the new pickle sandwich, the pickle Witch, which
is disturbing because my favorite ice cream sandwich has witch
in the name. But the people at Jimmy John's brand
new sandwich, the pickle Witch. This thing's disgusting. Features premium
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meat from the you know, the original Veto sandwich, salami,
pro bolone, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, olive, blah blah blah
blah blah, and it's served between two halves of a
juicy Jimmy pickle. Who goofed. I've got to know that
is disgusting. That is that is bad time. Now four
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the phrase of the week. Now yet again the phrase
of the week from a listener, not blind Scott, but
Scott another. This is a second time in a row
he sent us a phrase he wants us to know
more about. He says on the spot, put someone on
the spot. You guys are full of these phrases on
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your podcast. This one was said by Danny g on
either Saturday or Sunday's Fifth Hour podcast. Well, thank you
Scott for being an eagle eared eagle eyed is it
elephant eared anyway? Whatever, Thank you for listening and paying attention.
The phrase on the spot goes all the way back
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to the sixteen hundreds, believe it or not, Yeah, originated
with someone named George Tuk. George Tuk. The first usage
is believed to have happened in sixteen forty seven. Now,
this guy George by George, an army officer. He was
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also a writer. That's how we know he used on
the spot. It is an adjective that means something happens
or is done at the time or place in question.
For example, you might say that this podcast is on
the spot. We're doing it on the spot right and
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letting it rip. So anyway, on the spot the phrase
of the week, all the way from the sixteen hundreds,
George tuk Tooke and army officer in England. All right,
have a wonderful rest of your day. I'll be watching
Game one of the World Series tonight, Dodgers and Yankees.
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Cannot wait to see how that plays out. You enjoy
whatever you're up to tonight as well, and we will
talk to you tomorrow. I have a brand new podcast.
Danny G's gonna be with me and we'll talk to
you then. Either we're celebrating a Dodger win or maybe
not so much. We'll get to that and we'll do
it on Saturday. Have a wonderful day. And as Danny
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would say, lader skater got a murder. I gotta go
Kubbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old Republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's a clearing
house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
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Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard starts right now in.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The air eywhere A happy Friday to you. It's the
Fifth Hour. I think you already know that with me,
Ben Mallor and Danny g Radio, who will join me
this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. But you're stuck with
just me on this Friday, very early in the morning
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as we are recording this, my god, a very unholy hour.
But we are celebrating the start of Game number one
later tonight, Game one of the World Series at Chavez Ravine.
As Tommy Lisordi used to call it, blue Heaven on Earth,
as the Doyers try to win another World Series against
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the hated Yankees, and the media has had an absolute
field day the last week talking about the Dodgers and
the Yankees and the tradition all that. I get a
kick out of it because a bunch of the players
have been interviewed about this, and not a single player,
not a single player in the World Series was playing
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in Major League Baseball the last time the Dodgers and
Yankees played, nor not a single player was even really
alive on the Yankees and the Dodgers. But nonetheless, they're
going at it tonight and I will not be there.
Some of you have been sending me messages, are you
going to be a Game one of the World Series?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I tried to explain that the Dodgers, once they got Otani,
I was no longer a priority, which is fine. I
am able to watch anything I want on the Mallard TV,
so I'm good, and I'll go out there from time
to time, but I will not beat the World Series
unless I get a last minute phone call from Marlin's man.
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That has not happened. It is the day of Game
one of the World Series, and I have not heard
from Marlin's man, so I'm assuming he's either not going
or he's got somebody else who's most likely a bigger name,
who will go. And the ticket prices are so outrageous
my god, but I actually like did Dodgers chances tonight
(02:42):
with Jack Flaherty against Garrett Coleble see what happens with that?
In Game one of the World Series. It is also
a big day, I mean, the worlds of the late
Tommy Losorda colliding. You've got the Dodgers in game number
one of the World Series. And today is World Pasta Day.
(03:04):
Oh yeah, World Pasta Day, which is another one of
those made up holidays. They made this up in nineteen
ninety eight. It was not made by Chef Boyard. It
was not. Now there is a great urban legend which
I'm pretty sure is not true. I'm pretty sure is
not true, but I heard it when I was a kid,
(03:26):
and you probably have heard it too. The legend is
that Marco Polo Marco Polo imported pasta from China in
the twelve hundreds and that that was the whole love
of pasta in Italy. It was actually a Chinese food
(03:49):
and all that. Well, likely that is bull crap, because
there was a story years ago that said a Canadian
spaghetti company of all things likely started that urban legend
in the nineteen twenties, about a hundred years ago, and
By the time I was a kid, I had heard
(04:10):
about it and all that. But if you trace the
origins of pasta, it's been a staple in Italy going
back to the seventeen hundreds. Like, apparently, I haven't ever
been to Italy. The wheat that has grown in Sicily,
in southern Italy is amazing and pretty inexpensive, pretty inexpensive.
(04:36):
So you've got that, so celebrate appropriately. I don't know
what your favorite pasta is. I'm a Fetichini alfredo guy.
Myself and I used to love spaghetti, but I ate
so much spaghetti. When I was a kid, My mom
spaghetti and meatballs, and then she'd make a lot of
mac and cheese, and I just like, eh, I don't
(04:59):
mind macan cheese every once in a while, rare and
appropriate spaghetti. I'm over it. I'm good. I've had my
share of spaghetti. It is Frankenstein Friday today, Yes, Frankenstein Friday, which,
by the way, we learned, was filmed at Universal Studios.
The movie Frankenstein filmed at Universal Studios on the back lot,
(05:24):
not far away from where we filmed Benny Versus the Penny. Oh,
by the way, that's right, that's right, you know what
time it is? Ding ding, ding ding ding. Yes, time
for me to Shamelelly. See me promote the week eight,
Week eight of Benny Versus Payne. Now, last night I
took the Vikings. They of course lost the game. They
(05:47):
were favored by a few points against the Rams. Sam
Darnold pooped the Bed played well for one quarter and
then not so much the final three quarters of the game.
But I'm okay with that. And I've said this a
lot time. If you're a big fan and you dabbling gambling,
but you're ultimately a fan, it's called sports fan insurance,
(06:09):
and it's one of the coolest things you can do
if you love your team. And I'm a Ram fan.
But I looked at the game. At the time I
handicapped the game, I had to submit my my picks
to the big Kahunas at NBC bye you a certain hour.
I don't want to get into all the details and
all that. You don't need to know about that, but
my deadline. By the time my deadline to submit the
(06:29):
picks had shown up, I did not know for sure
that Cooper Cup was going to play, and I had
no knowledge that Puka Nakua was going to play. Had
I known that they were both going to play, I
likely would have flipped my pick. But you know, bygones bye, bygones,
(06:50):
I did not took the took the vikings, but I
wasn't upset. I lost the game, and I'm fine with
that because the Rams won, so I was happy about that.
But it's Week eight in the NFL. We got every
game covered. We make our maiden voyage again. We kick
off a new week here on NBC Sports Boston tonight,
also NBC Sports Philadelphia in San Francisco, all the other
(07:13):
regional cable channels associated with NBC. And because of you,
I want you to know, mainly because of the people
on this podcast that were complaining when I said, oh,
I can't watch your show, I don't have you know,
I want to live in a city where the show's on,
and you're complaining about this, that and the other thing.
So I then took your complaints and I went to
(07:36):
the few people I know at NBC and I was like,
you know, these guys really want to be on the Peacock.
They want access to the show. They say they'll watch,
and they said, are you sure they're actually going to watch,
and I said, well, yeah, I think they're gonna watch.
They say they're going to watch, but I don't know
if they're going to actually watch. I'd like them to watch.
They claim they want to watch, and so heya. One
(07:57):
thing led to another and here we are. So we're
on Peacock now. It's not on right now. And I've
noticed the trend here the last month where I'll be like, hey,
I watched the show. The podcast goes up, and then
I get a message I looked on Peacock and I
didn't see the show. I don't control when the show
(08:18):
gets uploaded. I have no control. The show is in
the can. We did the show on Thursday, right We
did the show on Thursday before the Ram Viking game.
So we've done the show. The show is ready to go,
but they have to edit it and they have to
address it up and make us look like somewhat civilized
human beings and not Neanderthals. So that's part of it.
(08:40):
But it'll be up today late afternoon. I know my
buddy Sports with Coleman and Baltimore. He sends me a
message every Friday, I don't see your show. What's going
on with that want. He wants me to have him
have the show published by I think noon, which I'm
all for. I have no problem with that. But again
I don't I don't control it. So watch it tonight
(09:03):
and then watch the world series, and then watch it
again and again and again and again. We had a
lot of fun this week. It was interesting. Now one
of the main reasons that this was interesting. I wanted
to go a little bit behind the microphone. And this
(09:23):
is a companion podcast about the radio show and the
original Recipe radio show and also the TV show. So
many of you, I say many. I got like five emails.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Sudden you were not going to take any time off
and you didn't show up to work and I don't understand,
and you ruin my whole day and it's not right
and it's not fair and I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, well that was not a scheduled deb Actually I
wanted to find there's one email, but there were a couple.
See if I can find it here. Just bear with me.
La la la la la la la la la la
la la la la. Because several of you sent very
passionate letters that I got a kick out. I was like, Wow,
(10:13):
I had no idea that me barking into a microphone
about some random nonsense would inspire this kind of commentary.
But here we are. Well, here's one I don't have.
The other one I don't have. This one's from listener Anthony,
who is a big fan. He says, Ben, I listened
to your podcast while working out at the gym. It
(10:35):
motivates me more than listening to Metallica while on meth.
That's wild, Anthony, A sports radio podcast motivates you while
working out to my cha grin. He then rips the
person that fill in for me, so you know how
your legs fall asleep when you have sat on the
(10:58):
toilet for an hour or two long. He then goes
on and rants and rants, and rants and rants. I
am the guy who recites the pledge with each new
mal or militia member. Please, if you cannot find someone
half as smart as you, how about someone who is
half as entertaining, well, listen, I don't know what happened
(11:19):
when I wasn't there, Anthony. Thank you for your support.
And I do love that whoever dares fill in for
me is public enemy number one. And it is a
blessing and a curse and as you know, Anthony, you're
likely pumping weight right now in the gym, pumping iron.
(11:40):
Here's the deal. The type of radio show that we
do is, I would say, in the modern sports radio game.
It's unique. But maybe not. Maybe there's other people that
sound just like me, and I don't know about them.
I don't listen to everything. I don't listen to much
sports radio at all because I don't want to copy
what somebody else's doing. However, I do believe that aside
(12:05):
from all the puffery and all that, we have something
that's rather rather unique, you know, and whether that's good
or bad. You know, some people absolutely hate it and
they believe it goes together like toothpaste and orange juice,
and it's just disgusting. And why are you on the radio?
(12:27):
And I always get, well, you're on and in the
middle of the night, and that's why your show is terrible.
And that's the bottom line, and this, that and the
other thing. And then I have other people like this guy,
Anthony and some others that I can't find the email
right now, we're like, I love the show. I listen.
You're a cornerstone, right You're the centerpiece of my day.
So Fortunately, there's more people like Anthony then there are
(12:51):
people that hate the show. And I've never understood, and
I will never understand. I'm in the radio business my
entire adult life. I will never understan and how people
have this weird relationship with radio, especially talk radio, where
if you don't like a talk show host, you have
(13:12):
to let them know you don't like. If I if
I go to a restaurant, I look at the menu.
We do this all the time. We go to travel somewhere, meanwife, Hey,
can we look at the menu? And THO, the maj
or d will hand you the menu and you'll look
and you get some eggs over there, you know, I
guess some kind of mixed things, some food processing crap
(13:33):
over there. Andy, Well, it's not really for me. You
hand the menu back very politely, and you walk out,
and you walk to the next restaurant. And there doesn't
need to be a tug of war. But yet in
sports radio it's I must have my opinion heard, and
I don't like your opinion. You're a schmuck, and I'm
(13:56):
gonna let you know. It's just I get a kick.
I am at I think that if that stopped, I
wouldn't like it. I'd be like, am I doing something wrong?
Having strong opinions and all. So. So it's one of
those weird things that it kind of crisscrosses between it's dumb.
But then if you don't have people randomly sending you messages,
(14:20):
then then there's a problem. I'm still getting people randomly,
you know, I'll make some passing reference politically and somebody,
you know, some triggered so and so will oh I, Chad,
listen to your show anymore? And we are heading towards
the epicenter. The trade deadline in the NFL is November fifth, However,
that is also the day of the election, and it
(14:42):
is going to be wild. It's always wild. This is
one thing that's changed in my lifetime. These presidential elections.
There are always a big deal. Like when I was
a little kid, you know, my parents were into politics.
My mom was was liberal, my dad was conservative, and
so they would debate the issues of the day and
they do back and forth and this that and the
other thing, and it was a big deal. But the
(15:05):
last twenty five years, it started with that hanging chad thing.
It's next level. It has attracted every whack job in
the world. There's nothing like it. There's no show quite
like a presidential election. The country is so split, it's
(15:26):
next level. I'm getting off on a tangent here, but
thank you all for your support on the show. As
I often end up paddling my own canoe and again
when somebody fills in, it's different. But I appreciate you
letting me know. It's good to be missed. Got to
(15:47):
be missed now one of the reasons I was away.
In fact, the main reason I was away was not
to go to the Clipper game. Eddie last night took
off to go to the hockey game, which is fine.
He's got time off. He didn't want to do the show.
He wanted to do the hockey. More power to In
my case, I made a tactical decision. If you're listening
to this podcast, and there's no other way to hear
(16:08):
it other than listening, you know that my voice likely
sounds a little more How should I describe it? Punch
it a raspy, a little more rasp to my voice.
You can hear it, right, you can hear it. I
don't sound exactly the same. I sound close, but not
exactly the same. And there's a reason for that. I've
(16:33):
been baddling like a little head cold type situation. I
did do the garlic and I was able to do
the show. And over the years, I've been doing this
a long time, and I do treat my voice like
a musical instrument. That that is my moneymaker. If you're
(16:55):
a prostitute, you have a different money maker. If you're
a professional athlete, of a different money maker. But for
me in my line of work, and I know I'm
doing the TV show now, which is kind of cool
and stuff, but it's really the voice. It's all about
the voice. That is my melody. That is the sweet
harmony that I can provide. And I remember when I
(17:16):
got into radio. We talked about this on a previous
episode being Danny G when he was there. We talked
about radio and the whole mindset of sports radio in
the early days, and I got in trouble with program
directors because they said I was to FM and I said, well,
I'm just doing the show and I'm not really FM,
(17:36):
and well, you'll be more AM, which means boring, and
I'm like, I don't want to be boring and so
all that. But as a result, I project. I go
up and down and all around, and I use my
lungs and my throat and the whole thing. I use
the upper part of my throat, my mouth. We all do.
(17:57):
But I create these vibrations and I've done it long
enough where when I have a head cold with the
proper amount of sucking on rock garlic and other garlic
related remedies from the old world, as Andrea would say,
(18:18):
probably the pagan witch world. But this garlic stuff, it's
worth the issue This week when I do the four
hour show, and it's a lot more than it used
to be because we do a lot of live reads.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I try to
dress them up, try to put my own touch on
(18:39):
the live reads and add my flavor to them. Even
though I don't get paid for that, I add my flavor,
So I do that to the show. Is it's extra
and it adds up. And despite everything that I do
to protect my musical instrument, my mouth, it takes a
(19:01):
fair amount of time once I finished the radio show
to be ready to perform again, to get my vocal
cord set and reset, and there's a hole to do
involving gargling salt water and sucking on garlic and just time.
(19:22):
There just has to be time. So I did the
show on Tuesday into Wednesday, and I had every intention
when I went to bed of doing the show on
Wednesday and Thursday. My voice was really bad. It was
the consistency of shredded chicken. By the time I had
(19:45):
finished the show, pulled barbecue shredded chicken, so I knew
it wasn't good. I woke up. My wife was not
feeling particularly good either, just going around and she's like, well,
I'm gonna call him sick. And I said, okay, that's fine,
I'm gonna work and she she then was explaining we
(20:07):
were doing a cost benefit analysis. He says, well, you
do the TV show on Thursday. It's Wednesday, but you
have to work all night. And then if you work
all night, you don't go to bed before the TV
show is taped. You have to tape the TV show.
Your voice takes X number of hours to get back
to where you can do another show. And she's she's
(20:31):
doing the math, and she's got her version of math.
I do. I do malar math. She's a malice, So
she does her own malar math and we're crunching the numbers,
and I have this in the cartoon bubble, the soundtrack
of my life. I have flashing in front of me
doing the radio show. My voice completely destroyed. The tone
(20:57):
quality is terrible, horrific, right, just bad, bad, bad bad.
I'm rasp beat. I have laryngitis, the whole thing. So
in my head, I'm like, well, I'm doing the show.
I sit down, they put the camera on. I'm talking
to Vinnie, the producer in Boston, all these guys, and
they're like, we can't do the show. We can't do it.
(21:18):
What I'm like, Oh my god, this is terrible. I
got to do the show. There's a lot of people, producers,
people that work behind the scenes, directors, lighting people, camera people.
It's not like a radio show. I mean there's a
lot of moving parts, right, there's a lot of moving
(21:40):
parts of a TV show. One of the reasons I
love radio. It's pretty much just me and you and
there's somebody putting the buttons on and occasionally some other
people will chime in. But ultimately, if Eddie's not there,
the show's the same. If Coop's not there, you don't notice.
And as long as the mic is on the show's
(22:00):
there and I can present the show. So in television,
obviously there's a lot more involved. And I didn't want
I didn't want to let those people down as I
had the sick time. I've been saving sick days for
ten years, and so I took the night off and
I watched the Clipper game, and I stayed up. I
(22:22):
didn't go to bed, I stayed up. I just rested
my voice. I did some garlic, I sucked on some
rock garlic, I did some gargling, the whole thing, and
fortunately my voice held up. I was able to do
the TV show and it went pretty well. You'll be
(22:43):
the judge of that again. It'll start airing later today,
and I thought my voice was relatively solid, much better
than it would have been had I done the radio show.
And didn't want to take any chances, because you know,
not that I it's not only the fact that there's
a lot of people depending on me for the TV show,
it's also I had the sick time. And I don't
(23:07):
know if you know this, but television pays a little
bit more than radio, just a little bit. A half
hour TV show pays a little better than a four
hour nighttime radio show, which seems impossible but not really
not really time now, time now for what what time
is it? Well, it's time for me to end the podcast. No,
it's not. Because we have the always popular Footy Fun,
(23:32):
Footy Fun. Let's do it a few items. I'm not
gonna do too many of these things, but some of
the new items coming out and about. And I had
an epiphany. I was driving my A seven eleven. I said,
the number one person to going who goes into seven
eleven and buys their lunch contractors, construction guys, you are
(23:55):
the boys. Without you, seven to eleven would not be
able to sell as much food. I bring that up.
We have a great number of people that work as
handyman and the contracting jobs, plumbers, things like that. So
seven eleven launching the new five dollars pizza meal deal.
But they also have wait, there's more, the new Philly
(24:17):
cheese steak pizza. It's available starting October thirtieth, so coming
up next week through January seventh of the new year.
So go to seven of how good could a cheese
steak be? At seven eleven? Let me know that's a
day before Halloween. That thing's going to debut with the
Philly cheese steak Pizza. Now I've made cheese steak pizza before.
(24:41):
Not bad, not bad. All the ingredients are right there.
You got the bell pepper, the onion, you got the beef,
and you throw in you know, the proper amount of
cheese and that's it. I mean, it's pretty easy, tomato, sauce,
mix it all together. Subway new deserted Subway they've introduced.
(25:01):
This is right up the alley of alf the Alien Opiner.
Unless it's not maybe more fer Dog the new double
chocolate peppermint foot long cookie. It's available from November first,
so the day after Halloween, through December thirty first, but
wall supplies lest the Subway think they're gonna sell out
(25:23):
of that thing. That sounds to me like a faux version,
like a faux version of the Girl Scout cookies, you
know what I'm saying. Follow Up to a story we
did last week on Foody Fun, Taco Bell welcoming back
fan favorite menu items from their first fifty years, including
(25:47):
the tostada from the nineteen sixties, the green Sauce burrito
It's here from the nineteen seventies, shout out in nineteen seventies,
the Mexim Melt from the nineteen eighties, the Gordie from
the nineties. That's the Gordida Supreme from the two thousands,
the Ots caramel Apple, and Panada available for a limited
(26:11):
time starting on Halloween. Okay, check that out on Halloween. Now.
This one is definitely both disgusting and this is the
one for alf. Jimmy Johns. I don't even know if
they have Jimmy Johns where Alf is. He's out in
the sticks. But if you're nearer Jimmy Johns, Alf, this
is right for you. I wanted to puke in my mouth.
(26:33):
They've unveiled the new pickle sandwich, the pickle Witch, which
is disturbing because my favorite ice cream sandwich has witch
in the name. But the people at Jimmy John's brand
new sandwich, the pickle Witch. This thing's disgusting. Features premium
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meat from the you know, the original Veto sandwich, salami,
pro bolone, cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, olive, blah blah blah
blah blah, and it's served between two halves of a
juicy Jimmy pickle. Who goofed. I've got to know that
is disgusting. That is that is bad time. Now four
(27:23):
the phrase of the week. Now yet again the phrase
of the week from a listener, not blind Scott, but
Scott another. This is a second time in a row
he sent us a phrase he wants us to know
more about. He says on the spot, put someone on
the spot. You guys are full of these phrases on
(27:44):
your podcast. This one was said by Danny g on
either Saturday or Sunday's Fifth Hour podcast. Well, thank you
Scott for being an eagle eared eagle eyed is it
elephant eared anyway? Whatever, Thank you for listening and paying attention.
The phrase on the spot goes all the way back
(28:07):
to the sixteen hundreds, believe it or not, Yeah, originated
with someone named George Tuk. George Tuk. The first usage
is believed to have happened in sixteen forty seven. Now,
this guy George by George, an army officer. He was
(28:27):
also a writer. That's how we know he used on
the spot. It is an adjective that means something happens
or is done at the time or place in question.
For example, you might say that this podcast is on
the spot. We're doing it on the spot right and
(28:48):
letting it rip. So anyway, on the spot the phrase
of the week, all the way from the sixteen hundreds,
George tuk Tooke and army officer in England. All right,
have a wonderful rest of your day. I'll be watching
Game one of the World Series tonight, Dodgers and Yankees.
(29:10):
Cannot wait to see how that plays out. You enjoy
whatever you're up to tonight as well, and we will
talk to you tomorrow. I have a brand new podcast.
Danny G's gonna be with me and we'll talk to
you then. Either we're celebrating a Dodger win or maybe
not so much. We'll get to that and we'll do
it on Saturday. Have a wonderful day. And as Danny
(29:31):
would say, lader skater got a murder. I gotta go
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