WEBVTT - Reading Labs 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.360 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:06.840 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific boom. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:11.280 Have you thought four hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.920 was enough, Think again. He's the last remnants of the 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:19.120 old Republic, the sole fashion of fairness. 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It's it's it's a It 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.800 starts about sports and then it goes off into tangents 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.000 and other things. And this podcast today is a it 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.240 is not a political podcast. That was yesterday we had 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.720 Dave Ruben on from the Reuben Report, who was great. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.240 I loved him. It was wonderful. We'll have to have 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.080 him on again. I'm sure we'll have him on several 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:27.160 times again. But today is I was hanging out. We're 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.480 just hanging out myself and West of the four oh five. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:42.000 David Gascon, Gaston Gaston. Uh. I can't. I can't imagine 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.040 because I we, I know, we've we've mentioned this year 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.840 pretty much every day recently. But I get emails from people, 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.360 you know somewhere like congratulating you on your relative becoming 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.240 the district attorneys. People think you are related to the 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:03.120 looney bin, the just nuts so crazy trained district attorney 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.520 in Los Angeles who's letting criminals run free. It's just 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.160 it's just you come from a police family, which is 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.120 the complete opposites wild and they worked together, they worked 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.880 together back in the day. I think the one element 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.400 that caught me up in arms last week was when 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.760 one of the local Fox reporters had reported a story 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:32.200 where d A. Gascon wants to he wants a prisoner 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.160 who's who's under investigation, is actually waiting for trial on 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.880 a on a murder of a police officer. He wants 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.760 him to be eligible for parole. Yeah, that seems and 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.160 not just I mean, you shouldn't kill anybody. He's killed 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.600 two people, not just the police. And and this was 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.000 like an execution in the back of the back of 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.880 the head fast food restaurant. The guy's eating a burger, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.920 trying to order a damn burger. This guy comes in, 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.880 this loser kills him. And we haven't the people of 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.880 California because this shows you that the elections are total bullcrap. 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.480 That this guy guess going one because he had the 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.960 most money. I bet you most people though they couldn't 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.880 you pick out anything of of you know what, his background. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.000 They didn't really look at it that closely. If they had, 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.079 I can't imagine they would have voted for this lunatic 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.320 considering what he did in San Francisco. And now he's like, hey, 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.120 hold my beer. San Francisco, we had people shipping in 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.839 the streets in San Francisco. But l a, oh, we'll 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.760 take it next level, which is unbelievable because we live 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:31.880 in the world of we need to put everyone in 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:39.080 a box, whether it's their gender, skin tone, religion, sexual orientation. No, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.960 I didn't agree with anything or everything, but Jackie Lacey 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.880 was our district attorney, and she was homegrown. She went 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.880 to u C. L A and she graduated from there. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.800 This is a Democrat. She represented the city of Los Angeles, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.160 like she had a lot of these checks in, you know, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.000 on that column for people that were looking for maybe 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.120 someone that wasn't let's say, a typical white male. She 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:03.080 was anything them. But and apparently it was not good enough. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:10.400 So we go all, we had all these big protests, 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.520 you know, I take to the streets. You know, we've 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.200 gotta we've got to solve all these issues. And then 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.680 you know, my god, she was the first African American 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.159 woman to serve as the l A District attorney. But 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.320 apparently that wasn't good enough. Well, and then also you always, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.159 like you look to law enforcement, who to the law 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.560 enforcement people supporting you know, that's generally you know, that's 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.839 that's not the only thing you look at, but it's something, 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.800 and they all supported Jackie Lacey. Nobody, nobody wanted to 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.120 turn l A into the lawless Old West, which apparently, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.080 um we've got here from all the sinners become saints. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.600 It would appear here under this district attorney. So it's 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.240 pretty it's pretty wild. So anyway, on this podcast, we 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.280 have Modern Medical Miracle, a Mallard podcast exclusive. You have 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.560 not heard this on the radio show at all our 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.640 bah humbug. And we've also got Get Soupy. We've got 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:10.520 Get Soupy as well. I need your advice on something too, Okay, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.599 So before we get into any of that, I need 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.080 your your professional take on this as a as a 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:21.440 historically bad eater that has turned good. Um, when is 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:26.280 the cutoff date for you to eat fruit? What do 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.800 you mean? Like the expiration day? Yeah? So when when 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.120 you look at let's say, um, a banana or an 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.280 apple or maybe even a keywi. Look, where is that 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.640 point of no return? Like where are you throwing it out? 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.159 And when are you're eating it? Well, there's a couple 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.640 of things. First of all, you gotta do the smell test. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.880 That's the most important. If it smells funky, don't eat it. Secondly, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.120 you do the field test. You gotta grab it and 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.880 kind of hold it and squeeze it. Does it feel right? Still? 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.000 Does it have the same buoyancy it's supposed to have 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.000 a piece of fruit? If not, um, then then I 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.240 don't do it. But I I'm as we've talked about 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.279 in the past on the pod, it's like my my 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:07.320 wife has thrown out more food that is just oh, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.080 it's it's it's almost the expiration day. Let's get rid 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.160 of it. And I'm like, no, no, no, I mean 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.159 I know there are there are stores that I've been 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.480 to that cell expired food because it's still fine to eat. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.320 It's just an it's a it's an estimate, is what 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.680 it is, right anyway, So so yeah, I'm not I'm 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.840 the wrong person. I do the smell field test and 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.080 then I go for it, usually very really and like 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.760 the banana thing, well everyone but not everyone. A lot 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:37.720 of people do this. My wife does this where with 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.200 the bananas turned bad, they turned color, then you just 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.160 make banana break, right right, that's the veteran that's the 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.400 veteran movement. Although I read that the bananas are fine 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.080 to eat even after they turn all googley and soggy 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.320 and nasty and all that, they're not, I think I 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.400 was fake news I read on the internet. I had 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.200 a I had a cautiously bad West of the four 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.280 or five moment a couple of days ago, which that's 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.120 why I'm asking you. I you know, typically in the 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.880 morning time I'll run or work out or whatnot, and 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.320 then eat later on the day. But on this day, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.800 I decided to make myself a protein shake in the morning, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:17.520 and it consisted of some questionable bananas and some questionable kiwi's, 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.600 and um, it made me think about you in a 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.600 certain park. Oh, you had the you had to we 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.880 call that now the Lamar Jackson you had the I 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.720 don't think I don't think I've run. I don't think 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.200 I've run that fast from point A to point B 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.200 to finishal a workout that I did on that day. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.920 And then the rest of the day I was I 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.400 was in the infirmary known as the bathroom. So you 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:48.520 were like Sonic the hedge. Yeah, you were as you 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.360 were running. Uh yeah, listen, I've obviously been there a 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.480 couple of times. You know, that scamper and the thing. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.760 And now you can you can relate to Lamar Jackson 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.000 because when you saw the Lamar Jackson video, he said 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.440 he had a cramp, which no one believes. That no 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.040 one believes because you could tell as he was walking 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.880 he was kind of holding his took his cheeks together, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.800 that's the sign of someone that's got a dysentery situation. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.640 He's got they called that. In the back of the day, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.280 the term was the Tennessee Trots. They called it. And 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:20.840 I'm telling you, I've seen it. We we have seen that. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.000 And uh, you know he's got the diaper gravy going 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.600 on there, and so you had that. We'll welcome to 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.320 the club, man, welcome to the club. It was. It 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.040 was horrifying just to be in that element where you 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.480 get to your destination and all of a sudden you 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.240 feel like not good. It's just memories of dumb and 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.920 dumber with the Lloyd Christmas um doing a little something 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.000 with a laxative in a drink. Now, let's crank it 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.920 up a couple of notches, make it even more awkward 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.920 and uncomfortable and difficult. Um, So now do that running 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.400 sprinting with the Tennessee Trots. Right, had a little dysentery there, 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.520 and you make it to the toilet, but you don't 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.480 want to sit on the toilet, so you want to 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.599 strat it like it's kind of like the squatty potty. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.080 And then you think you have hit the bowl with 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.240 your steaming dump and this ship shows over and then 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.640 you turn around and it's a crime scene. It's uh, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.480 it's the worst thing you've ever seen. Uh, And then 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.360 you have to decide do I just leave and leave 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:22.239 this horrific discuss the whole back wall covered in brown poop? 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.640 Or do you try to clean it up a little bit? 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.679 See that's that's where it's just it's really thorny. It's 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.839 it's delicate. Yeah, it's a very delicate proposition, especially when yeah, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.480 you feel a little tinkle maybe on your ankles, on 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:42.880 your calf maybe like delicate it's not good. Or you're 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.040 like at that moment, you're like, well, I'm probably getting 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.319 most of it in. You know, maybe not, but I'm 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.360 getting most of it. And then you turn around you 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.640 come agitated. You're like, holy crap. It brings me back 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.920 to one of my favorite movies, Predator, and Mac has 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.240 the mini gun or he's trying to hit the predator 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.240 and he just spray hasn't praise that mini gun, and 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.280 he doesn't hit a fucking thing, but all the trees 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.880 and the entire forest is decimated because of gunfire, but 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:15.000 he doesn't hit his mark. That That is it right there? Yeah, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.920 it is uh, it's it's it's interesting. Uh what's the term. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:25.640 Is it down range? I think it's not the term, yeah, downrange. Yeah, 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.680 that's a that's a tough one anyway. All Right, So 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.120 as far as the this kind of relates loosely, kind 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.640 of relates loose no pun intended. Yeah, to the to 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.800 the conversation we're having modern medical miracle. Now I've never 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.960 told this story. I'm violating my own hippo laws on this. Um, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:46.760 So I have a Mallard medical update. So during Halloween, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.559 right around Halloween, um, you know, I don't I don't 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.800 eat too much, as you know, you'd like to tease 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.040 me with food porn. So Halloween week, my wife had 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.360 bought this big bag of Costco candy bars nice and 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.480 one night in particular, I just decided to go for it, 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.200 you know. I flashed back to my fatty days, and 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.960 I'm like, I'm gonna just load up on this, you know, 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.280 and go for it. I'm gonna live like I, you know, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.280 lived back in the day. And so I was double 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.840 fisting candy bars and gummy worms. One hand was like chocolate, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.040 the other hand was gummy worms. Anyway, so I went 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.200 to lay down to go to bed is on the 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:32.520 weekend and my head starts spinning. I'm dizzy, and I'm like, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.040 holy crap. So I did what anyone would do. I 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.440 went online to try to figure out why, you know, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.560 I'd never had this happened to me before ever, why 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.480 this was going on. And I it every every medical website, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.160 you know, web MD. All those things said sign a diabetic, 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.680 you're diabetic. My both my parents, my mom passed away, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.280 my dad's all around diabetic, and they said you're more 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.640 prone to being diabetic. So this was very concerning to me. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.440 You might imagine, so um and that at around that time, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.440 we found out that Roberto, who works on the show, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:09.240 obviously is diabetic as well, and so I'm freaking out. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.160 I changed changed a few things around um, and then 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.520 I went to get some lab tests done on my blood. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.079 In fact, I just got them done this week. I 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.599 was reluctant to go because of the COVID thing. I 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:21.920 was like, I don't want to go to a hospital 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.440 right now, and of course I was right. The weight 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.480 was it took me an hour to get my blood drawn, 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.560 and the weight it was brutal because they only had 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.720 a couple of stations open, you know, those people waiting 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.480 to get their blood drawn. So I had a bunch 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.360 of blood taken out of my left arm. Now keep 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.520 in mind my my experiences with doctors is normally bad. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.440 I don't have good experiences with doctors. So I'm I'm 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:48.120 waiting for the results here, and I'm thinking the worst. Right, 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.480 I'm expecting that call. We're gonna put on seven different 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.560 drugs for the rest of your life. You're diabetic, You're 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:57.520 a loser, how dare you? And the results were a 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.640 modern medical miracle. Was stunning. It was I like using 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.200 the word hum dinger. This is a humdinger. So the 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.560 doctor calls me up, and the doctor wanted me to 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.040 explain how my labs had improved so much in a 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.840 couple of years since I last had them done. And 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:20.640 apparently this blew me away. I had been diabetic. I 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.320 didn't know it. Most people don't know they're diabetic. And 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.200 because of my my diet changed, my inter minute fasting, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.280 and my lifestyle changes. I am even though I guess 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.800 I'm still technically diebetic, I'm not. They don't have to 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.480 put me my medicine, and they think I'm fine, Um 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.800 that I've I've self medicated with my lifestyle changes where 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.560 I don't have to worry about that stuff. Um, my 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.480 levels were so low that they like they couldn't figure 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:47.160 it out. They're like, how the hell did you did 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.040 you do some I mean they were trying to it's 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:53.600 all because the intermitte fasting. It's wild. Wow. So it's 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.640 just apparently because I I don't normally eat so much 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.840 candy and junk food that that night I overtoased and 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.880 my body could not handle it because it wasn't used 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.559 to that amount of sugar that I don't usually eat. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.079 And I might eat some like chocolate, almonds or something 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:09.920 from time to time, but that's pretty much the extent 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.480 of it. And so they that they think that's why 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.320 I was all wobbly and like tripping, like I was 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.080 drunk and my head was smitting. So when you got 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.960 your your blood, your labs back, did you go through 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:27.880 the full gamut of testing, like did you do triglycerites, 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.800 your HDL, your l d L, your cholesterol, like did 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.520 you do everything? Yeah, they went through all that. My 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.960 liver function and everything was really my liver improved tremendously. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.680 I didn't realize it was a problem. Apparently they were like, 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.000 there was something going on there. And I now keep 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.000 in mind, I want to put a disclaimer on this, Gascount. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.280 You should never take medical advice from a podcaster or 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.160 an overnight radio hack. Um. You should make your own 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.000 lifestyle choices and your own changes. But I am. I'm 0:14:56.040 --> 0:15:00.080 fully invested in the cult of intermitute fasting and I 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:01.560 don't know how long I'll live. I hope I live 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.080 a long time. But however long I live, I will 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:05.840 I'll be if I am I lucky enough to get 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:10.200 to my eighties and nineties or whatever, I will continue this. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.560 This is this is with me now. Um, I'm not changing. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.680 So it was wild, man, I was. I was convinced 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.000 I was diabetic. I was convinced that I was going 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.240 to go on all these drugs and I was totally 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:25.000 screwed up. And that is the kind of thing you 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.080 do not expect when you get the other news, the 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.160 good news. I was like, Wow, that's wild. Now, what 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.480 was the motivating factor behind getting your blood drawn? The 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.320 wife she forced me to Well, I was gonna say, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.720 because you can do an annual physical and it's free 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:45.200 of charge with your insurance provider if you have private insurance. No, No, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.840 I just wanted to get you know, I wanted to 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.400 with the whole I'm not like most people with the 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.520 COVID thing. You know, every time I go by that 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.440 there's a hospital right now where I live, and there's 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.800 a line. I've sent you photos of that. I mean, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:57.880 there's people lined up around the street to get tested 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.160 for this, that and the other thing, which I think 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.480 is COVID, and I kind of avoid that for now. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.480 And it's like it's I don't feel like it's urgent. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.280 I mean because it only happened a couple of times, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.000 and that that week I was eating all the candy. Um. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.040 But yeah, I'm all about and the doctor was like, well, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.760 you know, I'm kind of The doc was like, I'm 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.760 kind of on inter minute fasting because I don't know 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.040 I as a doctor. You're in the hospital or whatever, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.480 and you're you know, you don't eat for a while. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.680 But yeah, Now a cheat code for you, Ben, and 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.880 for for listeners out there. If you do get your 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.440 annual physical and you get your labs like like Ben 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.320 had done, you can actually instruct your doctor to request 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.840 other things measured So for men, if you want to 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:40.200 get your testostero measured, your vitamin D levels measured, um, 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.320 vitamin C, like all those other things that you typically 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.960 have to pay for, if you say that you want 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.960 them get them tested for preventative reasons, they can include 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.920 that into the report and not charge you for it. Yeah, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.280 little life hacked from David get Yeah, I found that out. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.760 See earlier this year when we were talking about I 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.800 had some ear issues. I had my my physical done 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.399 and the doctor decided to just add a boatload of 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.760 things to my my blood. So from my labs, I 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.200 had to draw six vials of blood, but he included 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.840 everything in there so I wouldn't have to be charged 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.520 for it, and we labeled it as preventative reasons. And 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.280 because of that, Yeah, if I didn't, it was like 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.320 seventy five dollars, I think to measure your vitamin D 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.800 or to measure your testosterone, all those other things you 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:32.360 can do, but you get it free a charge once 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.360 every year. So it's a great little life hack for you. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.520 That's pretty cool. That's that's that's my medical update. And 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.040 I'm like I was excited about it. I was dreading it. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:41.800 I was like when I was waiting, because you don't 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.720 actually see the doctor. You go in and have the 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.959 test and then the doctor calls you. Now you know, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.920 so that's it. But don't bury the Leadum a man, 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.480 what what did you clock in at? What's your weight? 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:55.160 Because you are no longer You're no longer skinny Santa. 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.800 I mean you're no longer fat. Said you were skinny Santa. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.399 Now that's right. I forgot we were wants to talk 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.840 about the Santa thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've I've 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.200 lost you know, I don't give my fighting weight. I'm 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.800 not quite at where I want to be. Um, you know, 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.480 I still have because I was really fat for a 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.280 long time. I've still got some some skin kind of 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.320 hanging around places and stuff. But I'm I'm satisfied with 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.680 where I'm at now. I want to lose a little 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.280 more and I feel like every pound I lose I 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.920 might be gett an extra day. So I mess although too. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.320 There is a point where then then it becomes a negative. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.639 And I know Supermarket Steve and his wife were very 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.600 concerned about me because they like you, You're get a 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.760 little too crazy with this diet stuff. See that's the 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.560 problem when you're a big fat guy. You lose weight, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.240 people think you're sick. You know, it's it's a big, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:43.160 big issue here. But I did play Santa last week. 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.920 They strapped me to the back of a fire truck 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.040 and we drove around a city in southern California, right 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.200 in the in the foothills there, and it was awesome. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:55.000 It was it was bigger. I've done this now like 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.359 five six years something like that, I don't know how long, 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.879 And it was awesome. It was so much fun, and 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.000 it was bigger this year than it's ever been because 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:10.720 everyone is so freaking bored and they've got nothing to do, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.280 and this was the highlight to see the joy on 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:20.720 people's faces who have been in this prolonged stressful situation 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.840 of COVID and locked in their homes and not able 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:25.920 to go a lot of places. Get some takeout food 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.360 in a doggy bag and get out of here. And 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:29.879 there were people it was I felt like I was 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.119 in the Rose Parade and I'm the star of the 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.680 Rose Parade, like they were. I'm the biggest float and uh, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.120 I have the ribbon on it and on that. Because 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.359 there were people that had their chairs outside on the 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.640 lawn waiting to wave at Santa and the and the 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.800 elves and all that. It was really neat. It was 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:47.879 a lot of fun, and they were you know, it 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.600 went to all parts of the city. I mean, we 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.199 were up in the hills and it was night. It 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.879 was this was Friday night we did this, and it 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.600 got really freaking cold up in the hills. There's some 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:02.879 beautiful houses though, man, my god, to manches some costas 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.280 up there, and these are like neighborhoods I would never 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.480 go to. I don't think I'm allowed. I don't have 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.520 enough money to go to these neighborhos. And then these 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.760 huge houses, and there was one that was really cool. 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.160 They had all these little kids out and they had like, 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.280 you know, the Christmas theme out there, and they were 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.440 out and sitting waiting anxiously, you know, wait and see 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.280 the parade. It was pretty pretty neat. It was a 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.520 lot of fun, and you know, hopefully I'd like to 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:26.959 think that it goes back to the way it had 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:28.760 been where it's not over the top, like this is 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:32.080 the biggest thing in your life. But you know, for 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:36.680 this year, it was. It was tremendous and so I 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.160 want to thank the police, the fire you know, obviously 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.560 dealing with the fire department in the police department over there, 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:46.320 and it was pretty cool. That is awesome. But again 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.199 you went from you went from big old sand to 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:57.200 to just just a dude, you know. And those those 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.920 scannu the Santa pants made me look like they were 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:02.399 like skinny jeans on me, which is really scary. I 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.200 should never And the revealing part is usually when Santa's 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.199 were those big thick black belts, when you put it 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.240 through the loop, it looks like there's only a little 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:12.879 bit of slack. You had a ton of slack. You 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:17.280 had an I had too much slack. I had way 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.280 too much, way too much slack. Now, all right, so 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.560