Speaker 1: Cut booms.
Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He
Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearing
Speaker 2: house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The
Speaker 2: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
Speaker 1: and special guest pod star my man Alex the Vegan.
Speaker 1: I call you, I should probably call you by your
Speaker 1: full name, right, I should probably do no preference Ben,
Speaker 1: Alex Vegan. Do I mispronounce it's Alex tyshert Am I
Speaker 1: saying that properly. Yeah, Alex Teischert is his name. He's
Speaker 1: been with us before. I think Alex is a rock
Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio. He is the all star engineer,
Speaker 1: the most valuable man who I'm shocked is still at
Speaker 1: the company because I thought you were going to leave
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. But you run the Jason
Speaker 1: Smith Show and the Rob Parker Odd Couple Show. Yes,
Speaker 1: those are your two shows.
Speaker 3: A lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And you're a podcaster, as we talked about a little
Speaker 1: bit yesterday. You do several podcasts. You very big in
Speaker 1: the anime world, and you're still big in the anime world.
Speaker 1: Is that still a passion of yours?
Speaker 3: So still passionate. I've just kind of dwindled back on
Speaker 3: watching it as much because it's getting too popular out
Speaker 3: here and it's just getting kind of like a cesspool
Speaker 3: like Superheroes. I stopped watching that too because so many
Speaker 3: people are on it, but still hosting events. Still am seeing,
Speaker 3: still doing the podcast, but Shallow Oceans has been my
Speaker 3: forte lately.
Speaker 1: Ben. That sounds like an old Yogi bearra quote that
Speaker 1: piece of place is so popular nobody goes there. Yes,
Speaker 1: like's if it's popular, you want to go away from
Speaker 1: the mob. I respect that. I respect that you want
Speaker 1: to go away from the mob. Thank you don't why
Speaker 1: everyone's there. And I'm the same way. Like my wife,
Speaker 1: who you've met, and we fung out together, and we
Speaker 1: need to do that again.
Speaker 4: By the way, we have to have another event we
Speaker 4: can all get together.
Speaker 1: So my wife when she sees a crowd of people,
Speaker 1: she's like, oh, that must be a really good place.
Speaker 1: We've got to go there.
Speaker 4: When I see a crowd of people, I'm like, I
Speaker 4: don't want anything. Yes, I don't want to run away
Speaker 4: from that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to wait online. I did that when
Speaker 1: I was younger. I got that out of my system.
Speaker 1: I'm good, Yes, I am okay. It's just it's the truth, though. Ben.
Speaker 3: If everybody's going there, sure it might be great. But
Speaker 3: I'm gonna find the hole in the wall mom and
Speaker 3: pop spot that nobody's eating at that's even better. That's
Speaker 3: like my sign. I'm not going to wait an hour
Speaker 3: for freaking Ramen or something. I'm going the other way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And we have a tradition we started a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back on the podcast where we celebrate dope Holidays.
Speaker 1: Today is the ninth day of March. It is one
Speaker 1: are the dope holidays today? What are the ones that
Speaker 1: stand out? It's National Barbie Day. It's a very important day.
Speaker 1: National Barbie.
Speaker 4: Yes, International Little fanny Pack Day.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I love the fannies now, the fanny pack.
Speaker 4: When I was young, people that was a go to.
Speaker 4: You had the fanny pack. Go to like Disneyland, you'd
Speaker 4: have the fanny pack.
Speaker 1: My mom and dad would have the fanny pack, and
Speaker 1: then it became a thing where you were goofed on
Speaker 1: if you were a fanny pack. But I get the
Speaker 1: sense it's kind of come back recently where people don't
Speaker 1: get his goof done.
Speaker 4: I'm wrong on that, and is that a bad take
Speaker 4: by me?
Speaker 1: Ax? No, We're okay with the fanny pack. Now.
Speaker 4: They are back, not necessarily in style, but it's kind
Speaker 4: of back.
Speaker 3: It's acceptable now. Like I've been to a lot of
Speaker 3: events where I go to these anime things or just
Speaker 3: get togethers with friends, are out in public and it's
Speaker 3: more like of a fashion statement. Now people wear him
Speaker 3: and put all these goodies inside of him, and more
Speaker 3: so guys than girls too, Ben, which is actually really funny.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I saw the the What is the other? It's not
Speaker 1: a fanny pack. It's like a shoulder pack? Like is
Speaker 1: that what it's called? A statue? Okay?
Speaker 3: Those are a satchel, guy, I have a satchel. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 3: some of you you're a fan of the sack kind
Speaker 3: of feels like Indianda Jones. Even I'm not going anywhere,
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yes, did you wear a hat like Indy?
Speaker 3: I wish I did. I wish I would pull that off.
Speaker 3: Then I got the hair. You should do it, man,
Speaker 3: you should totally do it for an nextide dinner day,
Speaker 3: and I'll wear it. Why not.
Speaker 1: Okay, you gotta dress up, you gotta have put the
Speaker 1: Fedora Ondiana Jones had or whatever. It's a National dishwasher dayDay. Hey,
Speaker 1: don't discount the dishwasher that's never used one psa PSA.
Speaker 1: The dishwasher is merely the final step I dish I
Speaker 1: am the dishwasher. Nobody else has that take. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm the dishwasher at the mallor mansion. So my move
Speaker 1: is and I I took over the dishwashing your duties.
Speaker 1: When we first got married, me and the the wife
Speaker 1: the family here, I would look occasionally a dishwasher. My
Speaker 1: wife would do the dishes, and there would be like
Speaker 1: peas and pieces of macaroni and all this disgusting food
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the dishwasher. What as my wife
Speaker 1: would just put everything in the dishwasher without washing the
Speaker 1: stuff off right, and so it would just collect at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the dishwasher. It was disgusting. So I saw,
Speaker 1: this is my job, and so I've become a really
Speaker 1: good that's a fallback if the radio thing doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: the podcasting thing. I'll become a dishwasher because I'm really
Speaker 1: good at washing them and then I, you know, I
Speaker 1: put them in there and it just kind of desterilizes
Speaker 1: them as though it sterilizes them or whatever the term is.
Speaker 1: That's what the dishwasher does. Also, this relates to something
Speaker 1: we talked about yesterday. It's National get Over It.
Speaker 3: Then yes today.
Speaker 1: On Saturday here National get Over Day. So whatever's weighing
Speaker 1: you down, just get over it, dude.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Just get over let it go.
Speaker 3: You don't have a hot take about dishes, by the way, Ben.
Speaker 1: Do I have a hot take about dishwall? I have
Speaker 1: one for you? You have one?
Speaker 3: Oh good? Okay, I like I like to say this.
Speaker 3: So you're somebody who loves to cook. Now, I always
Speaker 3: enjoy all of your baking videos, any new items you make,
Speaker 3: because your thing, which I love. As you say, if
Speaker 3: somebody else can make it, so let's say raising canes, right,
Speaker 3: you're like, rather than pay for it, I'll just make
Speaker 3: my own raisin canes, which I love that you do.
Speaker 3: So now tell me if this is a hot take
Speaker 3: or not. I'm somebody when I make dinner. So let's
Speaker 3: say I make a veggie pasta in chiladas, maybe some
Speaker 3: homemade bread some Macedonian tradition, dish is like piza or
Speaker 3: some baklava. When I make my food, bend. This may
Speaker 3: sound crazy. I don't touch it, eat it anything until
Speaker 3: I wash all the dishes first.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's is that OCD? Is that?
Speaker 4: The term for that is.
Speaker 3: I just don't like letting those sit because then it's
Speaker 3: harder to wash. And then it's also after I've eaten
Speaker 3: and enjoyed this magnificent meal I spent hours making, I
Speaker 3: gotta go clean. No no, no no, We'll let it
Speaker 3: sit and warm. I'll clean for ten minutes and then
Speaker 3: enjoy the food and some wine. I feel like it's better.
Speaker 1: But the the food gets a little colder, doesn't ask.
Speaker 3: I just turned the conventional even on three p fifty.
Speaker 3: Let's sit in there for a little bits. Perfection gets
Speaker 3: a little crispy, you know, all right, it's like a
Speaker 3: fine tune thing.
Speaker 1: I've got whatever whatever floats your both. I what I'll
Speaker 1: do is, after I eat the meal, I'll just rinse
Speaker 1: everything off and then I'll come back and I'll finish
Speaker 1: up the dishes latch. But I do not I do
Speaker 1: not like to go to bed with a sink full edition.
Speaker 1: I have no respect for those people. Ben, no respect.
Speaker 1: Can't do it. You got to get that done. That's
Speaker 1: a box that needs to be checked. Yes, every day.
Speaker 1: And if I don't, and occasionally I'll be away working
Speaker 1: somewhere and I'll come home and the sink will be
Speaker 1: filled with the dishes. Oh, I just start, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what a freaking nightmare.
Speaker 3: I know we're World War three starting? If you who could.
Speaker 1: Possibly do this? Who could? Who?
Speaker 4: This is terrible?
Speaker 1: Who could ever do this? Now? I love people that
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast know that I have. We don't
Speaker 1: often talk sports on this podcast. We don't do sporty.
Speaker 1: We do that for the radio show. This is just
Speaker 1: a podcast about life and us behind the scenes and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And I was driving back from Vegas. Talked about that
Speaker 1: the other day, and we're driving through the deserts of
Speaker 1: Nevada and California, and there was a big wind storm
Speaker 1: last weekend in Vegas. It was historical, really had had
Speaker 1: wins like that in forty years. A bunch of planes
Speaker 1: got delayed and canceled a bunch of flights out of Vegas.
Speaker 1: The is it Harry Reid Airport? I think they changed
Speaker 1: the name of a couple years Harry Read Airport. So
Speaker 1: a bunch of flights got canceled.
Speaker 4: We're driving back and I'm the driver, you know, going
Speaker 4: through the.
Speaker 1: Desert towns, Baker, Barstow, prim all that in Victorville, and
Speaker 1: there's just an s load of tumbleweeds And so then
Speaker 1: I fell down a spider hole of where did these
Speaker 1: things come from? The tumbleweed?
Speaker 4: Did you ever ever done this? You know the history
Speaker 4: of the tumbleweeds?
Speaker 1: Why would you? Who would be so stupid erotic to
Speaker 1: look up tumbleweeds and westerns exactly right, Western movies and
Speaker 1: you know there's songs about tumbleweed country Western songs and
Speaker 1: it is a quintessential piece of American culture in the
Speaker 1: western part of the United States. Tumbleweed.
Speaker 4: But what is the where do they come from? You
Speaker 4: don't see them growing?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen a field of tumbleweeds?
Speaker 3: No? Is that a job? Can I do that?
Speaker 1: Well? Here's the thing.
Speaker 4: What if I told you that the tumbleweed are Russian invaders?
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, yeah, yeah, that's right. That is
Speaker 1: a that is a Russian creation. The tumbleweed. Expand that expand,
Speaker 1: let me expand, all right, So I fell down this
Speaker 1: rabbit hole. And in American history eighteen hundreds, around eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty five to eighteen seventy five, somewhere in that ten
Speaker 1: year period, okay, there were there was something. This is
Speaker 1: in South Dakota. Right. So there was a shipment that
Speaker 1: arrived to a town called Scotland, South Dakota, and it
Speaker 1: was a batch of flaxeed that was imported from Russia. Wow, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so's they got this shipment of flat Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: It's imagine how long that must have taken by boat
Speaker 1: and by horse to get to South Dakota. So it
Speaker 1: gets there, and in the batch of flax seed were
Speaker 1: some seeds for the tumbleweeds. No, and within fifteen years
Speaker 1: the tumblewee we called, we called the tumble it was
Speaker 1: actually called the Russian thistle, I believe it's. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: started out in South Dakota. He had rolled all over
Speaker 1: both Canada and all the way to California, and it's
Speaker 1: all over and people, you know the stories about tumbleweeds.
Speaker 1: People have been overwhelmed ranchers. Yes, I saw cars driving
Speaker 1: through Vegas and out of Vegas that were covered with tumbleweeds,
Speaker 1: massive tumbleweeds. And it all started with one shipment of
Speaker 1: flax seed from Russia to South Dakota.
Speaker 3: While that's incredible, that is crazy. So it's all to
Speaker 3: blame for flax seeds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: I wonder I don't put them in my smoothie. Ben.
Speaker 3: It makes sense.
Speaker 1: Those evil Russians, those evil Russians and their flax seed,
Speaker 1: they just wanted to tumble us. Look at them, I
Speaker 1: dare them. I do have a I have a phrase
Speaker 1: of the week, A phrase of the week. I like
Speaker 1: to also learn about random phrases. Alex, the Veganka and
Speaker 1: the phrase this week. I actually used this on the
Speaker 1: Overnight Show this week. We were talking about I think
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Buffalo Bills and they had released
Speaker 1: the number of players and I was explaining. The analogy
Speaker 1: I was using was that the Bill signed their quarterback,
Speaker 1: this guy Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: You probably don't know about because you're.
Speaker 1: Not the sports guy, which I love about you. Ve
Speaker 1: So he was He's a big quarterback. And the bills
Speaker 1: paid him a lot of money a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: and so when you pay a guy a lot of money,
Speaker 1: you got to get rid of some other guys. Eventually,
Speaker 1: it's yes, I said that, you know, we've been waiting
Speaker 1: for the other shoe to drop, the other shoe drop.
Speaker 1: So then I was like, where did the hell did
Speaker 1: that come from?
Speaker 4: Like that phrase waiting for the other shoe to drop?
Speaker 1: So then I started doing a little search, and I
Speaker 1: fell down a different path. And so I'm always interested
Speaker 1: in how these phrases, this lingo comes into society. I
Speaker 1: don't know if people use that. I use it, I
Speaker 1: don't know if other people use it. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people, do you plenty Yeah, yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a standard term. So waiting for the
Speaker 1: other shoe to drop.
Speaker 4: It goes back.
Speaker 1: It's actually an American term the way it's used, and
Speaker 1: it goes back to the late eighteen hundred's early nineteen hundreds, wow,
Speaker 1: And it began as a common expression in New York
Speaker 1: City the massive skyscrapers that were going up those apartment
Speaker 1: buildings in New York City, and during the manufacturing boom
Speaker 1: of the late nineteen century the earliest twentieth century, they
Speaker 1: would build these massive apartment buildings so people could live
Speaker 1: in the city and go to work and all that stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: And the apartments were all pretty similar, with the bedrooms
Speaker 1: located directly above and underneath one another. So the layout
Speaker 1: of each apartment was the same, right, bathroom, bathroom, whatever.
Speaker 1: Each floor is the same. So it was normal when
Speaker 1: you would hear above you, your neighbor would take their
Speaker 1: shoe off in the apartment, and you'd hear the sound
Speaker 1: of the shoe hitting the floor. They'd be sitting on
Speaker 1: their bed or whatever their chair the sofa put. They
Speaker 1: toss the shoe down, and so the you were just
Speaker 1: waiting for the other shoe to drop. Funny for them
Speaker 1: to take the other shoe. O, yeah, I get it. Awesome, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool, right, I like that.
Speaker 3: Actually wild from a simple person below somebody else in
Speaker 3: New York turned into a whole thing of saying, oh,
Speaker 3: do you think that's it?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. That's
Speaker 3: so funny.
Speaker 1: You ever lived in an apartment building? Have you ever
Speaker 1: had no? Actually not no, you're a young guy. Would
Speaker 1: you ever do that or would you always want to
Speaker 1: live in a house.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm actually very open to it. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: be against it as long as it's not in the city.
Speaker 3: Ben not a city guy personally.
Speaker 1: Well, I lived in apartments in the city. I lived
Speaker 1: in this massive complex. I wonder if you know about it,
Speaker 1: Park Lebrea. Do you know what Park lebra is in
Speaker 1: midtown LA?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Park Lebrea is this massive old school apartment
Speaker 1: complex in Los Angeles, which is right across from this
Speaker 1: place called the Grove. Okay, yes, okay, the Grove. So
Speaker 1: there's a it's like a kind of a touristy place,
Speaker 1: the farmers' markets. There. There's a CBS television studio where
Speaker 1: they did the price is right. I think they still do.
Speaker 1: Maybe not CBS Television City is not there, but there's
Speaker 1: a different studio that is there. So anyway, I lived
Speaker 1: right across from there. I lived in an apartment for
Speaker 1: about ten or twelve years, had an apartment. I know
Speaker 1: a couple of different apartments, and there's it's so different
Speaker 1: than living in a house because the smells people are
Speaker 1: cooking around dinner time, yes, and you can smell all
Speaker 1: the different foods that people are making. I remember I
Speaker 1: had a couple that lived below me that made a
Speaker 1: great Italian food and I'd smell the pastas and the
Speaker 1: different sauces and it was we really smelled good. And
Speaker 1: there there was an Asian family that would make just
Speaker 1: it just smelled amazing.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what the hell it was, but
Speaker 4: it just sounds great. It smelled great. So there's that.
Speaker 4: And then there's always that one person that leaves their
Speaker 4: music on.
Speaker 1: Too lass it's a king of the douches, yes, and
Speaker 1: so you have that and you got to deal with
Speaker 1: that and all, and that's kind of a pain, a
Speaker 1: pain in.
Speaker 3: The behind, right And yeah, what would you say, though, Ben,
Speaker 3: out of like all the foods, because I know you're
Speaker 3: such a worldly guy too, do you have a type
Speaker 3: of culture food you like the best?
Speaker 1: Well? Living in California here, which is essentially just Mexico,
Speaker 1: I love Mexican food, well made, and we have we
Speaker 1: have a we have better Mexican food here there in Mexico.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: It's insane. I just love it. So say that. And
Speaker 1: then I love Italian food as well. I pretty much
Speaker 1: love food. I don't much like you. I do not
Speaker 1: eat that much, so when I eat, I want to
Speaker 1: enjoy my meal because we are both part of the cult. Yes,
Speaker 1: of intimute fasting. I'm actually fasting right now. Well I'm
Speaker 1: fasting too, let's go see. Yeah, but we have this conversation.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about this before on the podcast.
Speaker 1: But I see. I always love seeing Alex when I'm
Speaker 1: coming in and he's leaving, because you're always happy. You're
Speaker 1: always smiling. Yes, probably because you're about to leave, but
Speaker 1: you're always in a good mood. Some people in that
Speaker 1: building are not always in a good mood. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: not in a good movie. Bad days. And so you're
Speaker 1: you've been trying to get me to do a seven
Speaker 1: day fast? Yes, And how many of these things have
Speaker 1: you done?
Speaker 3: So? I've done about four or five sevens and I
Speaker 3: think I'm about to do a fourteen, if not twenty
Speaker 3: day right now.
Speaker 1: So this is onie like stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've told me that I need to do
Speaker 1: seven Yes. And what do I tell you when you
Speaker 1: bring up this seven day fast? What do I always
Speaker 1: tell you?
Speaker 3: You always say if I wasn't married, Yeah, exactly, because.
Speaker 1: At some point within a week, I'm going to have
Speaker 1: to go out to have a nice deal with my wife,
Speaker 1: and if I don't eat, she'll throw food at me.
Speaker 1: So it is probably now my I'm going to go
Speaker 1: to my I'm gonna go to my. Do you have
Speaker 1: a fasting app that you use?
Speaker 3: No? I just go in my head with the time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh don't you Just.
Speaker 1: Get the apps are free and then you can see
Speaker 1: it's like your your wall of fame. Okay, so.
Speaker 4: I will I'm gonna alyst send you this right now.
Speaker 3: Because I usually just go off of like the last meal.
Speaker 3: So for example, was Monday at five, I made a
Speaker 3: smoothie here and that was the last thing I had.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, So what I do is, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm too cheap to pay for these apps, but I
Speaker 1: you know, keep track of how many fast you've had. Currently,
Speaker 1: I've had one thousand and one and forty six consecutive
Speaker 1: fast legend, but that is including multiple day fast so
Speaker 1: that's actually longer than that. Since I started this, michig
Speaker 1: Os and the last week I have averaged twenty eight
Speaker 1: hours between meals.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's on average. So I usually I skipped I've skipped
Speaker 1: a couple of days, so it has all the numbers
Speaker 1: like that. But my longest fast let's go page down here,
Speaker 1: page down. I think it's still my record is when
Speaker 1: I had my gold bladder situation and I was in
Speaker 1: the hospital and I went it was ninety ninety two hours.
Speaker 3: Wow, big old bladder.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, back in the back in the day.
Speaker 1: But I will send you this up because it's pretty please,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I've just been doing it mentally this entire time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might as well. It's free and they do it.
Speaker 1: These apps do have pay pay things, of course, but
Speaker 1: you don't need to do that.
Speaker 3: That's how they get you the paywak is.
Speaker 1: You don't have to go down that particular road.
Speaker 3: It's just so funny, too, Ben, because like you always
Speaker 3: do the three day about right, like you said around.
Speaker 1: I usually, yeah, like I'll eat on a Monday and
Speaker 1: then all skip Tuesday and all Wednesday and then eat.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll go like forty eight hours. I've done
Speaker 1: three days many times as well. Seventy two yes, seventy.
Speaker 3: Five hours something like that, which is so funny because
Speaker 3: that's when it actually gets easier, is after you pass
Speaker 3: that seventy two. Once you go to sleep again and
Speaker 3: wake up, you have so much energy. It's like you
Speaker 3: basically have ascended outside of your body. It's crazy. That's
Speaker 3: why I always tell people the first four days is
Speaker 3: the toughest. After that, you're just coasting.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like that show the first forty eight. Yes,
Speaker 1: first exactly, first forty eight, and it's it's pretty it's
Speaker 1: pretty similar to that.
Speaker 4: I'm going to send this to you right now.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Do this live while doing the pod.
Speaker 3: Might as well flex on some people, why not? Yeah,
Speaker 3: show off my standard thing.
Speaker 4: And I do.
Speaker 1: I do. Maybe it's all mental. I think this, this lifestyle,
Speaker 1: I think is good.
Speaker 3: Oh it is.
Speaker 1: As I've told you before, off the air and maybe
Speaker 1: even on the pod when you were in with me
Speaker 1: before I lived a pretty hard life for my body.
Speaker 1: I was morbidly obese for a number of years. So
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe I'm making up some of that
Speaker 1: you are, you know, I'm making up a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of closing the gap. Oh, absolutely, get
Speaker 1: back to zero if you will.
Speaker 3: Well, I've said it this way, Ben, that our superpower
Speaker 3: is the ability to heal itself, because the body is
Speaker 3: that incredible. I mean, all you have to do is
Speaker 3: turn off the car. So I've always made the reference
Speaker 3: to just doing an oil change, right like any mechanic knows,
Speaker 3: you can't change the oil if it's number one hot
Speaker 3: has to stop and settle itself down and two of
Speaker 3: the car's on, it's impossible. You've got to turn the
Speaker 3: car off to change the oil, let it drain out properly,
Speaker 3: fill it up with refresher so the car not only
Speaker 3: lasts longer, but runs better. And it's the same concept
Speaker 3: like I tell people all the time, Ben, if you
Speaker 3: ever do magically, which I don't know, but if you
Speaker 3: can do that seven day fast and then I don't
Speaker 3: mean to get kind of descriptive here, but your first
Speaker 3: bowel movement will shock you as to what comes out
Speaker 3: of you that's been sitting there. I tell people all
Speaker 3: the time, he is this a liquid bas No, No,
Speaker 3: this is solid mucus strands full of things that have
Speaker 3: just been decaying in your intestinal track that can only
Speaker 3: come out when you stop eating. It's crazy to me,
Speaker 3: and I honestly think that is probably mostly the root
Speaker 3: of all illnesses is because you never get that stuff out,
Speaker 3: so it just meshes into the lining of your intestine track.
Speaker 1: Here's the deal. We're gonna we'll get together. We'll have
Speaker 1: a meet and greet somewhere, okay, and the wife, we'll
Speaker 1: get some other people from work. We'll have a good time,
Speaker 1: and then you have to pitch to my wife. Will
Speaker 1: this will create this will give me like an extra year?
Speaker 3: I will do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, all right, well then we're good. Why can
Speaker 1: happen perfect? That's all we need.
Speaker 3: That's what I would love, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? What else? Did I saw this story
Speaker 1: bouncing around this week? And are you you're a TikTok guy? Right? Yes,
Speaker 1: you're here on there. So there's a bill that could
Speaker 1: ban TikTok in the US Congress is debating this today.
Speaker 3: All right, Well it was that the other day I
Speaker 3: think it was Thursday.
Speaker 1: Was yeah, all right, so they've been debating this now.
Speaker 1: I've heard over the last couple of years that they're
Speaker 1: collecting everyone's data. They're they're freaking out because it's just
Speaker 1: my theory though on this has always been like everyone,
Speaker 1: if you use anything on your iPhone, they're tracking. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm being tracked, yep, Like right now people are tracking
Speaker 1: everything anything you put on your phone is out there. Yes,
Speaker 1: So if you don't want to have that, just live
Speaker 1: like the unibomber YEP in a shack in Montana and
Speaker 1: then you'll be good.
Speaker 3: Thousand.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But see, that's what's funny has been how you were
Speaker 3: saying that too. They had this whole Congress thing with
Speaker 3: the guy and they were talking about so you're telling me,
Speaker 3: if I use tip tac and I go on my WiFi,
Speaker 3: they'll get my WiFi. And he's like, yeah, that that's
Speaker 3: the Instagram, Facebook, everything does that. It's not like we're
Speaker 3: different from anybody else. And they had like this whole
Speaker 3: weird thing where they were just trying to hypersphixiate on
Speaker 3: that we're losing American information to Chinese intelligence force and stuff,
Speaker 3: and it's like, that's not what any of this is. Like,
Speaker 3: go use Facebook. Look up how Facebook and Instagram had
Speaker 3: to have a settlement because of how much of your
Speaker 3: user data they sew all the time. Go look at
Speaker 3: Wells Fargo, who had to freaking do a settlement because
Speaker 3: they're selling your information. It's just they don't like the
Speaker 3: ability and truly ben how it's first person instant accountability
Speaker 3: and also news outlets. You can see things instantly from
Speaker 3: people who have no following, and they hate that here.
Speaker 3: They hate that you can get information easily at any
Speaker 3: time you want.
Speaker 1: Well, and the most powerful thing is yes information, Yes,
Speaker 1: tendencies of when you go to the grocery store to.
Speaker 3: Buy milk, or yes, they want your data.
Speaker 1: There's that line that has stuck with me over the years.
Speaker 1: I think I watched some documentary about social media and
Speaker 1: it was like, if you're not paying for a product,
Speaker 1: then you are the product, right, Yes, you are the product.
Speaker 1: Like social media, Facebook and Instagram and TikTok free they're
Speaker 1: completely free to the average s moo. But they're selling
Speaker 1: your information to advertisers and you are what they are
Speaker 1: selling thousand percent. It's that. And they mix in of
Speaker 1: course bot cyborg controls, of course, soft puppets.
Speaker 3: We call them feds where it's like CIA agents that
Speaker 3: make their own profiles. So like discredit anything when it
Speaker 3: pops up like oh yeah this is fake. Oh I
Speaker 3: appreciate that. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. It is one of
Speaker 3: those things that social media world. Man, they talk about
Speaker 3: a lot over the years. Yes, it is like the matrix.
Speaker 3: It is really is.
Speaker 1: You don't know what's real what's not.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, it is absolutely and when you mentioned it too,
Speaker 3: like I've had such a blossoming ability with it, like
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands of followers from my anime side, just
Speaker 3: starting the shallow ocean side. And it's such a good
Speaker 3: way to bring people information because it's truly from yourself,
Speaker 3: Whereas anytime I've used Instagram or Facebook or any of
Speaker 3: these Zuckerberg's a freaking guy. All of his platforms in
Speaker 3: American base, they only promote their people. That's my issue
Speaker 3: with artistry these days with musicians. Big corporations get their
Speaker 3: artists publicized. That's why you call them plants or anything like.
Speaker 3: If you're not backed by somebody, you will not get
Speaker 3: promotion or be able to expand. Really, that's why YouTube
Speaker 3: and TikTok are the biggest free flooring platforms for creators
Speaker 3: because it can be built organically. And that's why again
Speaker 3: these mega corporations hate it because on TikTok too, Ben,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you really use TikTok, but they
Speaker 3: have this like TikTok marketplace, which has been taking over.
Speaker 3: People have been making hundreds of thousands of dollars by
Speaker 3: just simply making videos with other people's products and getting
Speaker 3: commissions per sales, and people have been flourishing because of it.
Speaker 3: And again that's why it's a lot of money untouched
Speaker 3: and untathered, and they just it's just it keeps showing
Speaker 3: me they don't like when people truly have the outsource
Speaker 3: to freedom, if that makes sense, even though we publicize
Speaker 3: having freedom, it's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, if you actually knew how we make the
Speaker 1: sauce media, like even today, like it's it's all friends
Speaker 1: of mine that aren't in the business, and they'll be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I I don't listen to rate. I listened
Speaker 1: to podcasts because that's you know, organic, But I would
Speaker 1: say ninety eight percent of the podcast that have listeners
Speaker 1: and make money are owned by corporation. Yes, and people don't.
Speaker 1: They think they're kind of going rogue by listening to
Speaker 1: podcast and they're not. I actually had a question for
Speaker 1: you about this, all right, So I read there's this
Speaker 1: guy named you're into the streaming world, there's a guy
Speaker 1: named train Wreck. You know who that is. I've never
Speaker 1: heard of this guy. He claims that he makes twenty
Speaker 1: five million dollars per month, a is that possible? And
Speaker 1: be who the hell is he? I don't know who
Speaker 1: that is. I know a train wreck. I've seen video
Speaker 1: of train wrecks, but I don't know who train wreck is.
Speaker 3: Who is he? How many videos have you seen a
Speaker 3: train wrecks Matt?
Speaker 4: I have not.
Speaker 1: I just saw his name popped up by I had
Speaker 1: a story on one of the sites that I scammed
Speaker 1: for news, and I saw they had a story about
Speaker 1: this guy claiming he makes twenty five.
Speaker 4: Million dollars and like per month, and I'm like, holy crap.
Speaker 3: Yes, So he's the reason why he's doing so well
Speaker 3: is because he was originally a Twitch streamer. But there's
Speaker 3: this new platform that's come out that's called Kick, and
Speaker 3: it's been basically like the biggest counterpart to Twitch. Because
Speaker 3: Twitch is the main hub for all streamers, whether you're
Speaker 3: video gaming or doing podcasting or you're just talking and
Speaker 3: just interjecting with fans or whatever it is. That's been
Speaker 3: the biggest thing. So this counterpart that started this new
Speaker 3: company that's been flourishing is Kick, and he is a
Speaker 3: co founder of it too, And so their whole premise
Speaker 3: is that let's say, for example, I do Twitch, streaming
Speaker 3: for my anime stuff. Right, So say on the Twitch
Speaker 3: stream you have somebody who does a subscription, so basically
Speaker 3: they subde your channel, which gives them like additive bonuses,
Speaker 3: new emoes, they're closer, and they can support you. It's
Speaker 3: like basically just supporting somebody like and et cetera. So
Speaker 3: it costs about five dollars. So what Twitch does is
Speaker 3: they take fifty percent of all of your subs because
Speaker 3: they're in house company. So say they give again five bucks,
Speaker 3: you get two fifty. Twitch gets two fifty. And again
Speaker 3: these bigger streamers, they're getting hundreds of subs per stream, right,
Speaker 3: so they're half their money is gone. Say they were
Speaker 3: supposed to make ten grand, they only get five and
Speaker 3: Twitch gets five, right, so kick, what their thing is
Speaker 3: is that they only take fifteen percent from you. And
Speaker 3: they're a big company as well, investing all this money
Speaker 3: for streaming, and they have bought individual big streamers and
Speaker 3: signed them to contracts to bring fandom over. So that's
Speaker 3: why so many streamers now have been going over there
Speaker 3: is because instead of again ten, I'm only getting five,
Speaker 3: now they're getting almost eight five, like eighty five hundred.
Speaker 3: It's increasing their money they get and lessening the charge
Speaker 3: for them. So that's why it's done so well, is
Speaker 3: because not only is the co founder again, but he
Speaker 3: streams on it as well. And people are losing their mind.
Speaker 3: These people are becoming millionaires bent off of this stuff.
Speaker 3: It's social media is the new pioneer of stuff. It's
Speaker 3: incredible to me. That's again why doing a full circle
Speaker 3: for you. They hate TikTok. They don't like organic people
Speaker 3: making money for themselves if it's not in house. To them,
Speaker 3: it's crazy, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see these stories about like it's harder for dude,
Speaker 1: I think, to make a lot of Oh, of course,
Speaker 1: like a woman. You know, that's the number one product
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 3: Sex sells man exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone.
Speaker 4: You know, women are in kind of into it.
Speaker 1: They might hate you, but men are like, oh you know,
Speaker 1: and the women that have made money on that only fans.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh my god, Ben, It's incredible to me. So,
Speaker 3: you know, we were talking about the gangster stuff and
Speaker 3: things you uh. Yes. So in Sopranos there was a
Speaker 3: character named Vicky in there. She's one of like the
Speaker 3: main characters and she's dating one of the mob guys,
Speaker 3: and so I guess apparently this is a real story.
Speaker 3: After Sopranos ended in et cetera, she wasn't going through
Speaker 3: a rough patch with money, and so she started an
Speaker 3: only fans and announced it and within the first like
Speaker 3: I think three hours of her starting in and opening it,
Speaker 3: it paid off her house and all this stuff.
Speaker 4: It's incredible to me.
Speaker 3: Bet Wow, it's incredible. That is nuts, And it blows
Speaker 3: my mind as a consumer too, because I'm like, when
Speaker 3: I grew up, we just had to look online for
Speaker 3: this stuff, right. It's like, I don't understand why people
Speaker 3: would want to pay for individual stuff. It's like, you
Speaker 3: really are a fan of these people that much.
Speaker 4: No, I'm the same way, man. Man, I'm older than you, Dude.
Speaker 1: I had to go to like like a CD, like
Speaker 1: liquor store magazine. Yeah. The the idea that it's you would.
Speaker 3: Pay, isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1: But I don't, you know, I don't know why the
Speaker 1: nudy bar. I used to go to nudy bars and
Speaker 1: then I had I had the day I woke up and.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, that's what I'm saying, dude, Ben,
Speaker 3: I've been only to a strip club maybe once or
Speaker 3: twice in my life, right for a buddy's birthday party.
Speaker 3: And every time we leave, I always ask him, like,
Speaker 3: why did we just go? They're like, dog, it was
Speaker 3: a great time. I was like, you just paid hundreds
Speaker 3: of dollars to go home and basically finish yourself. Like,
Speaker 3: I'm confused, what we just did? We spent money all
Speaker 3: the time for what?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you want the big Mac tack and
Speaker 1: you go look and the big Mac's on a lazy
Speaker 1: Susan sitting around. You can't you can't touch the big Mac,
Speaker 1: you can't eat the big Mac.
Speaker 4: You can smell the big Man, and then you got.
Speaker 2: To go home.
Speaker 3: And what am I doing?
Speaker 1: I wanted the big Mac.
Speaker 4: I got to look at the big Mac, but I
Speaker 4: wanted the big Mac. I want what's up with that?
Speaker 4: I don't want to say that.
Speaker 3: I just the human psyche trips me out sometimes, it
Speaker 3: really does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And then those guys that have a lot of
Speaker 1: money to go to the Nudi bar, The Newdy Bar's
Speaker 1: kind of like the horse track, yes, because there's guys
Speaker 1: that have a lot of money that go there, and
Speaker 1: then there's people that have no money that Yes, it's
Speaker 1: pretty wild man.
Speaker 3: And you know the difference, the one with the lots
Speaker 3: throwing hundreds of ones in front of the stage. The
Speaker 3: other ones are in the back, just sitting in the dark.
Speaker 3: It's crazy to me. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The ones with a lot of money have all the attention. Yes,
Speaker 1: the ladies know where to go. They can they can
Speaker 1: smell the money. They can absolutely smell the money. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get out on that. Have a great rest of
Speaker 1: your Saturday. Don't forget, do not forget to vote in
Speaker 1: the bank. We'll talk more about that. We also have
Speaker 1: the mail bag, which I'm looking forward to listener questions
Speaker 1: and our answers, a staple of the Sunday Pod.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 1: We will.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow later, Skater