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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cutbooms.
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 soul fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the Clearinghouse
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Me, Ben
Maller and Danny G Radio. It's Saturday, hanging out with you.
It's the twenty fourth day of May. We are back
at it, slaving away on the weekend, the hot microphones
in the pods studio, ready to bloviate all day long.
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Well actually like maybe the next thirty forty minutes. Who
knows how long this will be. But Dany, we were
back at it and last night. How about those New
York Knicks home court advantage? Baby, the Knicks are They're
not gonna lose back to back games at home, Danny G.
No way. The Indiana Pacers cannot win back to back
games at Madison Square Garden, the world's most famous arena.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Unless yeah, yikes, as you would say. They vomited all
over themselves, rode.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The vomit commet. They sucked at a time you cannot suck.
It was a tie game going to the fourth court.
They were tied at eighty one, and then in the
fourth quarter, did not get her done. Did not get
her done by the skin on their chinny chinchin the
Knicks blow it. And so the Pacers, oh my god,
they have a choke hold. They have an absolute choke hold.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I see what you did there on this series.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Here, and how about the Pacers the winning last night.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
They're so good on the road in these playoffs, and
the Knicks are three and five at home in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
No, I know they're gotta losing regular Tyrese Haliburton. In
the first half, I was flipping back and forth because
I may or may not have had some bets on
the on the on the baseball, but I'm watching the
basketball and he was horrific. Every time I flipped over,
he was missing a shot or not making the right pass,
and it was it was not not good. He's one
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of seven at halftime. Now, one of those at the
end was just like a throwaway three point shot. Uh,
you know, to try to beat the buzzer, but still
he was. He was terrible in the first half. And
then Indiana to win a game with Halliburton, who's been
their guy. Not all that great, but it's it's legend
and as long as this guy plays, he will always
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be associated with Marcel and Brooklyn. Pascal Sea cum Uh
Pascal Siakam was outstanding, uh for the for the Pacers
obviously me led led thirty nine point twenty three of
them in the first half.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yes, and doesn't see it come look like he's fifty
years old.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
That is still one of the greatest things I've ever had. Yeah,
he's a little older, but you know, one of the
greatest soundbites ever. And so there you go. And there's
not like one person to blame per se for the Knicks.
You could say Jalen Brunson. He did have ten points
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Ah, those last couple of threes he shot up were
ugly looking.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, And there was that inbounds play where he got
called for the foul I.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Think it was, but the taste holding that jersey.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, So I mean there were a couple of things there.
But the Knicks did not have a lead in the
fourth court. There were no lead changes. It was tied
once obviously the start of the quarter, but there were
no lead changes. And so Indiana, I have no skin
in the game. I liked I like the way the
Pacers are playing, So whatever, that's.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What I feel like. You know, Brunson that first three
he chucked up at the end of the game, felt
like he really rushed that shot because he thought they
were going to foul him.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah. Well, the thing about the Pacers, though, watching the
way they play, it's like they didn't have that Andrew
Nemhart didn't go crazy, Nate Smith didn't really none of
those secondary guys. It was Siakam. And then the other
thing that stood out with the Pacers is the fact
that they they just they don't do anything terribly on offense.
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You know, it's like they're good in every phase, just
about it. It's pretty crazy anyway. So that's the basketball.
How about the Yankees last night losing to the Colorado Rockies. Wow,
how much money do you think the sports book on
the low information fan that saw all those stories written
about how the Rockies and they are the Rockies off
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to the worst fifty game start in the history of
professional baseball and the mighty New York Yankees came into
Coors Field on a random Friday night in May last night,
and how about that. The Yankees go down and Aaron
Judge hit a home run and the Yankees still lose.
That's the ninth win of the year for the Rockies.
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We're on the holiday weekend. Normally, this big holiday weekend,
Monday is always the day where you're supposed to look
at the baseball standings, and that's like the first major
point in the baseball season where you're like, are you good,
are you bad? Are you a contender? Are you a pretender?
Like all that stuff, and you know, it's just one random,
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random day. There was some weird stuff though, like the
Red Sox we're actually trailing after five innings to the
Orioles and ended up winning nineteen to five in their
game at Filway. So there was some some wacky stuff
that took place. And on this pod, as we hang
out together, we're just you know, kind of see what's
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going on in the world and whatnot. We have. Later on,
we'll have the very popular phrase of the week, the
phrase of the week that'll be coming up a little
bit later tomorrow. We've got the mail bag, don't I
don't forget though I wanted to mention this. We are
less than a week away from all Card. The first
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ever Canadian Mallard Meet and Greed will be coming up
this Thursday, Thursday, Thursday Thursday. And if you have somehow
been in the dark on this, you have not been
paying attention. Bad job by you. But we're going to
be hanging out together on Thursday night. I'm very excited
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to meet Nico, who's the hostess with the Moses for this,
putting this whole thing together. But we've got the Malord
Meet and greet. We're coming up this Thursday. Were taking
place on the twenty ninth of May at Courtside on
Maine from seven to ten, maybe even earlier. It depends
on my flight where I'm flying, and we're all flying
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in that day. Lorrain is going to be there and
Cooper Loop and I'll be flying in and my flight's
a little bit later than their flights, so we will see.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Well everything they have time to do the weed before
you get there.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You can have a wonderful time, have a wonderful time.
So we're gonna be the seven to ten o'clock. Coop
claims he's gonna leave early. Coop says he'll take up
I plan on staying if there's people there, I plan
on staying till till ten o'clock. So Malard meat Greek Thursday,
if you're obviously in British Columbia, if you're within reasonable
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driving distance. I've gotten some RSVPs from Washington, Idaho. We'll
see these people actually show up. You don't need a RSVP.
This is not like you don't need an invitation for
this thing, but we'd love to meet you. It's gonna
be a lot of fun. And the other event we
were supposed to have, which is that Saturday a week
from today, got canceled because the Vancouver white Caps there's
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some some weird thing they're playing in Mexico this weekend
or this coming weekend, I guess, And so there's no
game in Vancouver. So we have nothing else planned at
this point. It's getting late in the game, so if
anything else happens, we will we will let you know.
We will let you know what's going on with that. Anyway,
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Later on we will discuss more from the science world,
because we haven't done much science.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh, we haven't done scientifical in a while.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, we've not done that in a while.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Also, a pickleball fight that has gone viral and I
actually texted the clip to you. So as we get
through this plot, I'd like you to take a look
at this hilarious video and before the show is over,
I'll let everybody know where they can go look at it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, you old pick a ball. I saw. The Belichick
story took another turn yesterday as Jordaan Hudson sent out
a message calling Pablo Torres reporting defamatory, but then she
deleted the post. I'm a little confused by that, Like
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you can't really delete anything on social media. It's once
it's o And.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I'm so sick of that couple. They're the new Travis
Kelcey Taylor Swift to me because every single date. Huh dude,
there's a thing about Jordan every day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah no, I hey, listen every day because People magazine.
It's a People magazine story. It's like tabloids. Yes, it's
getting it's getting traction.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The name of his boat one ring plus eight or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Which is the ultimate like the Bill Belichick's the new
definition of whipped. If like you're putting a what a
cheerleading championship ring from a Division five school in Maine
up against the Super Bowls and all that. I mean,
my god, uh, I just I just like when people
de lead stuff on social media thinking well, no one
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else see that, and then it's like in on all
the websites they have the screenshot, like People Magazine and
all that, and so it's just I get it. I
get a kick out of that. It does seem like also,
Aaron Rodgers, I saw this yesterday. Aaron Rodgers. I guess
is he's still playing this weird game. But he heina
confirmed indirectly that he's going to play for the Steelers,
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although he did it in your passive aggressive way that
he often does. Rogers was speaking at some event in Austin.
He's been in Austin. He was on the Rogan podcast.
I don't know who listens to that, but he's He
was hanging out at a public event in Austin and
some kid, always the kids, some kid asked if there
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was any chance that he could sign with the Chicago Bears,
which is completely reasonable. The Bears went out and got
Caleb Williams. That's completely reasonable. That they would they would
add they would add Aaron Rodgers after that anyway, Rogers,
he said, no, he told the kid, but I believe
there's a team that might play in Chicago this year,
a road trip. He says. I love Chicago, though, he said,
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way more than they love me. Great relationship, all that stuff.
So immediately we all went to the Steelers schedule and
ding Ning Ning ning Ning. If you look at the
steel schedule, they are on the road against the Bears
in week twelve, November twenty third. So wow. Now Rogers
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claimed this week that the reason he has not signed
is because he's got sick people in his world. They
have like the cancer and all that stuff. And I
still believe my conspiracy that a big part of this
is he got killed, absolutely killed last year when he
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was with the Jets, and he went to Egypt and
missed some practice. And so I figure, like, if he
doesn't sign with the Steelers, nobody can say, hey, you're
bad job by you for missing this or missing that.
So as long as he waits, we're almost into June.
Though this is the last our last Saturday, right, I was,
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I guess our second to last set. Wait, when is
June first? Is it next Saturday? I don't even know
his next weekend?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Right, Yeah, I'm looking on my calendar right now. Yeah,
next Saturday is the thirty first.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Okay, So next Sunday? Okay. So we're heading into the
last the last week in the month of May and
then training camps in July. Mid July uses when training
camp starts, so we're really not that far. We're far off.
What's the cutoff date? June fifteenth or something like that
for the Steelers with Aaron Rodgers, we will find out.
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We have enjoyed the spit the phrase of the week,
and why don't we get to this story about the
brew haha involving the pickle right now?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, Ben, click on that. Our homie, Clay Travis switeted
this out yesterday.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
All right, Alumni Association Clay Travis.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah at Clay Travis. He says, I can't stop watching this.
Leading with the high kick was bold, but bro, the
running punch is the real star here. And his co
host on The Limbaugh Show, Buck Sexton, has this video
of these guys who were fighting during a pickleball game.
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After watching this video, I feel like Mike Tyson sexist
to say, kicking like little girls sexist. But they look
like they didn't even horse around with their siblings. I mean,
one guy, you'll see he throws a running punch and
misses and falls flat on his face and rolls on
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his belly. The other guy does this weird kind of
kick where, man, you need to see this video. It's hilarious.
I watched it, but the one probably ten times in
a row.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The guy with the green kind of the green shirt.
There he's holding. There, he's holding the racket he did hit.
He swung once with the racket. The guy in the
blue shirt should have kept his racket. You don't drop
your weapon.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
When you're going to I was gonna say, this is
why the NFL doesn't let you take your helmet off.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah yeah, well we had that. We what was his
name for, Miles Garrett? Remember he went forward try to
throw the help Yeah yeah, back.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
In the Remember famously was it Lyle Alzado who used
his helmet as a weapon back in the day. Got
the matter. The only male dominance in this video, whatsoever,
is the guy swinging his racket to hit the other
guy the blue The guy in the blue shirt on
the ground. This is the kind of wimpy fight you
would expect from pickleball players.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, it was it. I wonder what they were fighting
about that, Like, what what do you think the fight
origin was? Was it a bet? Did they have a bet?
Did somebody violate one of these sacred rules of pickleball? No?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I bet you it was something really silly, like a
ball being in or out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, I've never played pickaball. Have you attempted pick a ball?
I guess I'm old enough to play pickle ball. I'm
of the age I should want to be into pickleball.
Now I don't want to be into pickle ball. I
have no interest in pickleball. I'm annoyed when I go
by the park and see people playing pickleball. It's it's
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in where I live. There's some tennis courts and one
of them has been turned into a pickleball court. So
the whole thing annoying for me. But have you attempted
the pickle ball to any of you gone out with
the wife and had a nice night of pickleball?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, we have a tennis court that's not too far.
A few years ago, when it first was like the
thing to try out took our kids up there and
they had their pickleball rackets and a few pickleballs, and
we tried it out. It's just like ghetto tennis. There
you go.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
What happened? Remember a couple of years ago there were
stories about athletes buying pickleball teams. It was gonna be.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Well that worked out? Well?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, yeah, like whatever happened. Like they were all these
stories that so and so is buying a pickle ball team,
and these are gonna be like the next big thing
is pickleball? Did I miss that? Is it already over?
I feel like it's over.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
This video is so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right, moving on from that, some
hot pickleball. I know, Alf the alien opiners excide. He
loves pickles, so I'm sure he's very very excited. We're
doing hot Pickel talk on the radio, all right. The weekend,
you know, the Life and Times of Malor and Danny
g Radio. And this past weekend did not leave the
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house other than to go to dinner with a with
a friend of mine who like a late birthday dinner
type thing. But my buddy, he was upset because he said,
you go here where you want for dinner. Now, we
don't eat a lot. We don't eat out a lot
these days. Been cooking a lot. Like enjoy cooking, so
would rather just eat at home. It's cheaper, you can
make whatever you want, and what's around in the kitchen.
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So my buddies like, go anywhere we want to. So
this this Italian place that I like, and I'm a
big fan of the fetichini alfredo, and so I was say,
I want to go. This Italian place is really good,
and he's like, no, that's you should go to a steakhouse.
And he was Danny. The guy was busting my balls,
saying that I made a poor decision because he was
going to buy dinner and I should have gone to
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a steakhouse. But I wanted Italian. I didn't want a steak.
And if I wanted a steak, I could have gotten
a steak at the you know, the Italian restaurant had steak.
But I didn't want steak. I wanted the fetichini alfredo.
That's what I want. I cooked mine the proper way,
butterfly cut, and then I cook it well done. That
me and Rob Parker enjoy our steak the same way.
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And there's something. It's not a waste. The customer is
always right. That's the proper way to enjoy a steak.
But the point is, I didn't want a steak. I
wanted pasta. And why would you invite me to a
birthday dinner and then bust my balls because I didn't
pick the right restaurant. You know what I believe it is.
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I think he wanted steak and he assumed, since it's
a birthday meal, that he would we would go to
a steakhouse, and that I screwed up his plans because
I ended up choosing an Italian restaurant. But he really
wanted a steak. So it's really more about him, not
about me. That's my theory. It's my my gambling buddy
Hunter who give me a hard time. It's ridiculous, absolutely pathetic.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
What did he order off the menu that uh he ordered?
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I don't know. I had the fetichin the alfredo with
the UH, and then I had I had the it
is where I had a combo chicken parm fetichi in
the alfredo, So I had the chicken from the chicken
parm and then I had the fetichine alfredo. He had.
It was some kind of meat dish, but it wasn't
a steak. I forget, and then we had.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
The you don't even know. So this sounds like it
went back to all about being about you.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Well I didn't. I don't care what other people eat.
I don't judge. See, this is the problem. And there's
a lot of people that judge, Like you know, some
people and I'm not gonna name names here, but sometimes
like if I ordered a steak a certain way, there's
some people that are criticized the way I order a steak,
and I'm like, well, why would anyone do that because
it's my steak. They're not eating the steak. It's my steak.
It's what I want, you know what. You would give
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me a hard touch of well, you know, ruin a
steak well done, And I'm like, no, no, no, I
just I don't worry about what you eat. You can go.
I don't care. If my friend eats dog food, I
don't care. I'm not eating it. I'm not going to
take anything off his plate. He can have the freaking
dog food. Knock yourself out, you know, chow chow pow wow.
I don't care. I'm just saying I'm just I'm putting
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that out now. One thing I did make last weekend,
which is rare. I think I've bet it one other
time and it is truly without a doubt. And I
can say this from the bottom of my heart as
having eaten it last week. Enjoy the spit. Enjoy the spit.
The culinary journey continues and we return to a favorite
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on the whole menu which we've only made one other time,
some delicious chicken shwarma. Very exciting and you've not had
I think has everyone had chicken shwarma at this point?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Should we do? We need to tell people what that is.
I feel like people should know what that is. But
it's very popular in the Middle East, right It's like
a street food in places like Turkey and Israel and
Iraq and place like that, and anyway, it's not that
hard to make. It just takes a long time. You
get to get a spit. My wife got one on
like the Amazon, and so we got that. The traditionally
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it's you know, it's just you spice the meat and
you stack it, and the key part is to cut
it the right way. You gotta cut it thin cut
slice shaved off meat and you just mix together a
bunch of garlic and spices and a bunch of lemon
and some olive oil. And it takes a couple hours
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to make in a traditional oven. And the good thing
is there's always a lot of extra. And I don't
normally eat leftover as Danny, as you know, I'm not
a leftover guy. I don't believe in leftovers. However, this
is the exception of the rule.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
This in pizza, I will eat because the flavor settles
in on this.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, it's really outstanding. So that's good. You know, probably
make more of it at some point this weekend, so
we'll we'll see what happens with that. But that was
the big culinary event of the weekend last weekend. Very exciting.
And yeah, I'm also proud of the magic box that
I have that I'm able to watch all these games
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with on the TV. I've told you about the magic box.
You've chosen, You've chosen to avoid the magic box. But
I've gotten so much use out of the magic box, Danny,
that the magic box I had, I had to change
the batteries on the remote control because the magic box
has been getting a extreme workout. My right hand has
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been getting a workout flipping channels on the magic box,
which is a good sign. That means that the magic
box is being used the proper amount. In fact, I'm
gonna have to eat the Costco later today to buy
more batteries for the magic box. I am such a
radio loser. Put that in your pipe and smoke. The
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phrase of the week time now for the phrase all
the week. So the phrase of the week this week
is something everyone in radio dreads, silence. Silence is gold Man.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah that I still have nightmares about dead air on
the network.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, I agree with you. We get dead air on
the network feed every hour for ten seconds before the
top of the hour, there's dead air. And if I'm
in the studio sitting there, I immediately like, what is
going on? Why is there nothing there? And I know
exactly when the dead air is going to come. But anyway,
the phrase silence is golden is a proverb, and obviously
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it means, you know, keep quiet. That can be a
good thing, that's valuable. Quiet is valuable, it is good,
and that speaking occasionally in certain situations will cause more
more harm right unnecessarily. And I was surprised when I
found out the phrase silence is golden. It goes back
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to ancient times FN. Why the people that study this
kind of stuff say that ancient Egyptians walk like good
Egyptian Ancient Egyptians they looked at the text as early
as four thousand years ago and they determined that this
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phrase was used in ancient times. They went back to
in Egypt, one of the great philosophers of the time
said that silence is more profitable than abundance of speech.
There was a medieval proverb speech is silver, but silence
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is golden was another version of this that has been
twisted around now. In the earliest English use of the
exact phrase silence is golden someone named Thomas Carlisle in
eighteen thirty one, so that's a couple hundred years ago,
and he used that as a wise old saying. So
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if it's a wise old saying in eighteen thirty one,
then it's a really wise old, old old saying at
this point. And so silence is golden. That goes all
the way back to ancient times and the Egyptians medieval
time passed through. There's been different versions in Egyptian, Arabic,
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European and whatnot. And the modern form. The modern form
going back to the nineteenth century, and it's alive and well.
The phrase of the week, silence is golden four thousand
years ago. That a while four thousand year ago, raise
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and we are still using it today, which is, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
It ain't golden. If you cause silence on six hundred affiliates.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Uh well, you might get a call. You might might
get a phone. Although I have noticed that there's any
kind of glitches with the Gremlins. What they do is
they'll just put music on and so you'll just get
some some nice music there, and it's the it's the
way to go. Absolutely. Uh well, I was gonna do
some science stuff, but I think we're think I think
we're okay, Dan, I think we're you know, maybe do tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
We could start before the mail bag tomorrow. We can
do some scientifical.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
All right, very good. We'll have a wonderful rest of
your Saturday. I'd say enjoy the basketball.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
But I you know, Danny, I what it is in Minnesota.
So don't you think the Tea Wolves will look a
little bit different.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
It's a bad matchup. They just don't match up well
with Oklahoma City. They just this should be a sweep.
It's the NBA, so it will likely not be a sweep.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
But it's don't say that I don't want to sweep
in the semi finals. We are.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We're dangerously close, Danny, to the Indiana Pacers and the
Oklahoma City Thunder in the final that we'll watch no
matter what because we're sporty people. But holy crap, they
are not going to get any average people, any casuals
are not going to be watching the NBA finals, which
ain't my problem. It's not your problem. We don't work
for the NBA. That's an NBA problem. That's not our problem. Okay,
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but holy canoli, man, we are that close. Just a
couple more wins by the Thunder and the Pacers after
that game last night, and it is on like Nightmere City.
All right, we'll get out having a wonderful day. We'll
talk to you tomorrow with a mailbag later.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Excavator, my flation