WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: Washing Before Eating 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:01.639 Cut booms. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.560 If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:09.400 a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:12.680 of the old Republic, a sol fastion of fairness. He 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.680 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.360 rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow, it's the clearing 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.040 house of hot takes. Break free for something special. The 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:29.560 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now. 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:35.760 In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:44.400 and special guest pod star my man Alex the Vegan. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.360 I call you, I should probably call you by your 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.559 full name, right, I should probably do no preference Ben, 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.360 Alex Vegan. Do I mispronounce it's Alex tyshert Am I 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.520 saying that properly. Yeah, Alex Teischert is his name. He's 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.280 been with us before. I think Alex is a rock 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.000 here at Fox Sports Radio. He is the all star engineer, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.200 the most valuable man who I'm shocked is still at 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.160 the company because I thought you were going to leave 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.800 a couple of years ago. But you run the Jason 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:16.080 Smith Show and the Rob Parker Odd Couple Show. Yes, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:17.600 those are your two shows. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:18.160 A lot of fun. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.680 And you're a podcaster, as we talked about a little 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.840 bit yesterday. You do several podcasts. You very big in 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.440 the anime world, and you're still big in the anime world. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:28.840 Is that still a passion of yours? 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.520 So still passionate. I've just kind of dwindled back on 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:33.920 watching it as much because it's getting too popular out 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:35.759 here and it's just getting kind of like a cesspool 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.320 like Superheroes. I stopped watching that too because so many 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.240 people are on it, but still hosting events. Still am seeing, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.200 still doing the podcast, but Shallow Oceans has been my 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:45.039 forte lately. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.720 Ben. That sounds like an old Yogi bearra quote that 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.120 piece of place is so popular nobody goes there. Yes, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.360 like's if it's popular, you want to go away from 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.560 the mob. I respect that. I respect that you want 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.040 to go away from the mob. Thank you don't why 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.720 everyone's there. And I'm the same way. Like my wife, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.920 who you've met, and we fung out together, and we 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:06.760 need to do that again. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.480 By the way, we have to have another event we 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:09.320 can all get together. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.480 So my wife when she sees a crowd of people, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.200 she's like, oh, that must be a really good place. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:15.040 We've got to go there. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:16.880 When I see a crowd of people, I'm like, I 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.120 don't want anything. Yes, I don't want to run away 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:21.040 from that. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.200 I don't want to wait online. I did that when 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.520 I was younger. I got that out of my system. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.359 I'm good, Yes, I am okay. It's just it's the truth, though. Ben. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.760 If everybody's going there, sure it might be great. But 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.239 I'm gonna find the hole in the wall mom and 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.880 pop spot that nobody's eating at that's even better. That's 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.640 like my sign. I'm not going to wait an hour 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.720 for freaking Ramen or something. I'm going the other way. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.320 Yeah. And we have a tradition we started a couple 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.120 of weeks back on the podcast where we celebrate dope Holidays. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.639 Today is the ninth day of March. It is one 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.360 are the dope holidays today? What are the ones that 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:57.720 stand out? It's National Barbie Day. It's a very important day. 0:02:57.840 --> 0:02:58.679 National Barbie. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.200 Yes, International Little fanny Pack Day. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:01.760 Oh. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.919 I love the fannies now, the fanny pack. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.320 When I was young, people that was a go to. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:10.760 You had the fanny pack. Go to like Disneyland, you'd 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:11.440 have the fanny pack. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.160 My mom and dad would have the fanny pack, and 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.480 then it became a thing where you were goofed on 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.400 if you were a fanny pack. But I get the 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.440 sense it's kind of come back recently where people don't 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:22.160 get his goof done. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:23.959 I'm wrong on that, and is that a bad take 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:24.239 by me? 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.679 Ax? No, We're okay with the fanny pack. Now. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.160 They are back, not necessarily in style, but it's kind 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:29.440 of back. 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.480 It's acceptable now. Like I've been to a lot of 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.640 events where I go to these anime things or just 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.120 get togethers with friends, are out in public and it's 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.520 more like of a fashion statement. Now people wear him 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.280 and put all these goodies inside of him, and more 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.080 so guys than girls too, Ben, which is actually really funny. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:45.360 Is that right? 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:45.640 Yeah? 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.720 I saw the the What is the other? It's not 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.080 a fanny pack. It's like a shoulder pack? Like is 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.720 that what it's called? A statue? Okay? 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.520 Those are a satchel, guy, I have a satchel. Actually, yeah, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.840 some of you you're a fan of the sack kind 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:00.920 of feels like Indianda Jones. Even I'm not going anywhere, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.400 you know, Yeah. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.880 Yes, did you wear a hat like Indy? 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.119 I wish I did. I wish I would pull that off. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.840 Then I got the hair. You should do it, man, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.280 you should totally do it for an nextide dinner day, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.120 and I'll wear it. Why not. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.479 Okay, you gotta dress up, you gotta have put the 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:24.000 Fedora Ondiana Jones had or whatever. It's a National dishwasher dayDay. Hey, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:28.560 don't discount the dishwasher that's never used one psa PSA. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.640 The dishwasher is merely the final step I dish I 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.720 am the dishwasher. Nobody else has that take. By the way, 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.560 I'm the dishwasher at the mallor mansion. So my move 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:42.080 is and I I took over the dishwashing your duties. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.040 When we first got married, me and the the wife 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:50.080 the family here, I would look occasionally a dishwasher. My 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.520 wife would do the dishes, and there would be like 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.920 peas and pieces of macaroni and all this disgusting food 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.520 at the bottom of the dishwasher. What as my wife 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.479 would just put everything in the dishwasher without washing the 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.000 stuff off right, and so it would just collect at 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:10.000 the bottom of the dishwasher. It was disgusting. So I saw, 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.479 this is my job, and so I've become a really 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.760 good that's a fallback if the radio thing doesn't work out, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.560 the podcasting thing. I'll become a dishwasher because I'm really 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.159 good at washing them and then I, you know, I 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.000 put them in there and it just kind of desterilizes 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.240 them as though it sterilizes them or whatever the term is. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.880 That's what the dishwasher does. Also, this relates to something 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.159 we talked about yesterday. It's National get Over It. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.080 Then yes today. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.119 On Saturday here National get Over Day. So whatever's weighing 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.080 you down, just get over it, dude. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:36.240 That's it. 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.960 Just get over let it go. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:45.200 You don't have a hot take about dishes, by the way, Ben. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.599 Do I have a hot take about dishwall? I have 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:46.560 one for you? You have one? 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.680 Oh good? Okay, I like I like to say this. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.039 So you're somebody who loves to cook. Now, I always 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.480 enjoy all of your baking videos, any new items you make, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.200 because your thing, which I love. As you say, if 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:58.440 somebody else can make it, so let's say raising canes, right, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.480 you're like, rather than pay for it, I'll just make 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.000 my own raisin canes, which I love that you do. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:04.960 So now tell me if this is a hot take 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.400 or not. I'm somebody when I make dinner. So let's 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.280 say I make a veggie pasta in chiladas, maybe some 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.159 homemade bread some Macedonian tradition, dish is like piza or 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.000 some baklava. When I make my food, bend. This may 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.000 sound crazy. I don't touch it, eat it anything until 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.680 I wash all the dishes first. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.760 Wow, that's is that OCD? Is that? 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:27.640 The term for that is. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.000 I just don't like letting those sit because then it's 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.440 harder to wash. And then it's also after I've eaten 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.240 and enjoyed this magnificent meal I spent hours making, I 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.240 gotta go clean. No no, no no, We'll let it 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.240 sit and warm. I'll clean for ten minutes and then 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.280 enjoy the food and some wine. I feel like it's better. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.599 But the the food gets a little colder, doesn't ask. 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.480 I just turned the conventional even on three p fifty. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.440 Let's sit in there for a little bits. Perfection gets 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.360 a little crispy, you know, all right, it's like a 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:53.160 fine tune thing. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.040 I've got whatever whatever floats your both. I what I'll 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.960 do is, after I eat the meal, I'll just rinse 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.400 everything off and then I'll come back and I'll finish 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.200 up the dishes latch. But I do not I do 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.480 not like to go to bed with a sink full edition. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.760 I have no respect for those people. Ben, no respect. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.720 Can't do it. You got to get that done. That's 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.480 a box that needs to be checked. Yes, every day. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.760 And if I don't, and occasionally I'll be away working 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:21.400 somewhere and I'll come home and the sink will be 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.080 filled with the dishes. Oh, I just start, Oh my god, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:26.680 what a freaking nightmare. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.280 I know we're World War three starting? If you who could. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.239 Possibly do this? Who could? Who? 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:34.280 This is terrible? 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.880 Who could ever do this? Now? I love people that 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.960 listen to this podcast know that I have. We don't 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.760 often talk sports on this podcast. We don't do sporty. 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.440 We do that for the radio show. This is just 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:49.360 a podcast about life and us behind the scenes and whatnot. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:53.800 And I was driving back from Vegas. Talked about that 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.920 the other day, and we're driving through the deserts of 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.200 Nevada and California, and there was a big wind storm 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.160 last weekend in Vegas. It was historical, really had had 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.920 wins like that in forty years. A bunch of planes 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.400 got delayed and canceled a bunch of flights out of Vegas. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.560 The is it Harry Reid Airport? I think they changed 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.600 the name of a couple years Harry Read Airport. So 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:15.920 a bunch of flights got canceled. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.640 We're driving back and I'm the driver, you know, going 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:20.240 through the. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:25.600 Desert towns, Baker, Barstow, prim all that in Victorville, and 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:30.960 there's just an s load of tumbleweeds And so then 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:37.120 I fell down a spider hole of where did these 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.760 things come from? The tumbleweed? 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.640 Did you ever ever done this? You know the history 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:41.319 of the tumbleweeds? 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.480 Why would you? Who would be so stupid erotic to 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:50.640 look up tumbleweeds and westerns exactly right, Western movies and 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.040 you know there's songs about tumbleweed country Western songs and 0:08:55.440 --> 0:09:00.160 it is a quintessential piece of American culture in the 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.880 western part of the United States. Tumbleweed. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.599 But what is the where do they come from? You 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:05.760 don't see them growing? 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:06.160 Right? 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.280 Have you ever seen a field of tumbleweeds? 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.480 No? Is that a job? Can I do that? 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:12.200 Well? Here's the thing. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:19.320 What if I told you that the tumbleweed are Russian invaders? 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.800 Hold on, hold on, yeah, yeah, that's right. That is 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:29.240 a that is a Russian creation. The tumbleweed. Expand that expand, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.920 let me expand, all right, So I fell down this 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:38.040 rabbit hole. And in American history eighteen hundreds, around eighteen 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.080 sixty five to eighteen seventy five, somewhere in that ten 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.240 year period, okay, there were there was something. This is 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.960 in South Dakota. Right. So there was a shipment that 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.680 arrived to a town called Scotland, South Dakota, and it 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.840 was a batch of flaxeed that was imported from Russia. Wow, okay, 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.120 all right, so's they got this shipment of flat Okay, fine, 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.560 It's imagine how long that must have taken by boat 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:09.560 and by horse to get to South Dakota. So it 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.000 gets there, and in the batch of flax seed were 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:20.200 some seeds for the tumbleweeds. No, and within fifteen years 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.280 the tumblewee we called, we called the tumble it was 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:28.319 actually called the Russian thistle, I believe it's. Yeah, it 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.520 started out in South Dakota. He had rolled all over 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:37.800 both Canada and all the way to California, and it's 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.000 all over and people, you know the stories about tumbleweeds. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:45.480 People have been overwhelmed ranchers. Yes, I saw cars driving 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:50.440 through Vegas and out of Vegas that were covered with tumbleweeds, 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:55.400 massive tumbleweeds. And it all started with one shipment of 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.960 flax seed from Russia to South Dakota. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.880 While that's incredible, that is crazy. So it's all to 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.080 blame for flax seeds. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.120 Yeah, that's it. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:09.959 I wonder I don't put them in my smoothie. Ben. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:10.840 It makes sense. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.800 Those evil Russians, those evil Russians and their flax seed, 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.319 they just wanted to tumble us. Look at them, I 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.480 dare them. I do have a I have a phrase 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.760 of the week, A phrase of the week. I like 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.439 to also learn about random phrases. Alex, the Veganka and 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.160 the phrase this week. I actually used this on the 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.160 Overnight Show this week. We were talking about I think 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.520 we're talking about the Buffalo Bills and they had released 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.679 the number of players and I was explaining. The analogy 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.520 I was using was that the Bill signed their quarterback, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:47.680 this guy Josh Allen. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.640 You probably don't know about because you're. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.080 Not the sports guy, which I love about you. Ve 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.400 So he was He's a big quarterback. And the bills 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:57.760 paid him a lot of money a couple years ago, 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:58.920 and so when you pay a guy a lot of money, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.440 you got to get rid of some other guys. Eventually, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.280 it's yes, I said that, you know, we've been waiting 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.320 for the other shoe to drop, the other shoe drop. 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:07.439 So then I was like, where did the hell did 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:08.120 that come from? 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.840 Like that phrase waiting for the other shoe to drop? 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.200 So then I started doing a little search, and I 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:19.200 fell down a different path. And so I'm always interested 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.439 in how these phrases, this lingo comes into society. I 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.160 don't know if people use that. I use it, I 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.599 don't know if other people use it. I think a 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.240 lot of people, do you plenty Yeah, yeah, exactly right. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.200 It's kind of a standard term. So waiting for the 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:34.079 other shoe to drop. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:35.120 It goes back. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.000 It's actually an American term the way it's used, and 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.600 it goes back to the late eighteen hundred's early nineteen hundreds, wow, 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:49.199 And it began as a common expression in New York 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.920 City the massive skyscrapers that were going up those apartment 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.920 buildings in New York City, and during the manufacturing boom 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.440 of the late nineteen century the earliest twentieth century, they 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.679 would build these massive apartment buildings so people could live 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.720 in the city and go to work and all that stuff. Okay, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.959 And the apartments were all pretty similar, with the bedrooms 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.559 located directly above and underneath one another. So the layout 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.319 of each apartment was the same, right, bathroom, bathroom, whatever. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.640 Each floor is the same. So it was normal when 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:26.200 you would hear above you, your neighbor would take their 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:31.040 shoe off in the apartment, and you'd hear the sound 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.240 of the shoe hitting the floor. They'd be sitting on 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.439 their bed or whatever their chair the sofa put. They 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.880 toss the shoe down, and so the you were just 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.160 waiting for the other shoe to drop. Funny for them 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.120 to take the other shoe. O, yeah, I get it. Awesome, Yeah, 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:45.760 that's cool, right, I like that. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:50.680 Actually wild from a simple person below somebody else in 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.920 New York turned into a whole thing of saying, oh, 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:53.840 do you think that's it? 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:54.040 Now? 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.240 I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. That's 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.160 so funny. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.240 You ever lived in an apartment building? Have you ever 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.960 had no? Actually not no, you're a young guy. Would 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.360 you ever do that or would you always want to 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:05.120 live in a house. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.720 You know, I'm actually very open to it. I wouldn't 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.480 be against it as long as it's not in the city. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.000 Ben not a city guy personally. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.880 Well, I lived in apartments in the city. I lived 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.320 in this massive complex. I wonder if you know about it, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.439 Park Lebrea. Do you know what Park lebra is in 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:18.240 midtown LA? 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:19.200 I don't think so. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.560 Okay, So Park Lebrea is this massive old school apartment 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.360 complex in Los Angeles, which is right across from this 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.680 place called the Grove. Okay, yes, okay, the Grove. So 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.360 there's a it's like a kind of a touristy place, 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:38.400 the farmers' markets. There. There's a CBS television studio where 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.360 they did the price is right. I think they still do. 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:45.000 Maybe not CBS Television City is not there, but there's 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.880 a different studio that is there. So anyway, I lived 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.520 right across from there. I lived in an apartment for 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.360 about ten or twelve years, had an apartment. I know 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:56.520 a couple of different apartments, and there's it's so different 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.080 than living in a house because the smells people are 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.920 cooking around dinner time, yes, and you can smell all 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.840 the different foods that people are making. I remember I 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.800 had a couple that lived below me that made a 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:13.200 great Italian food and I'd smell the pastas and the 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.640 different sauces and it was we really smelled good. And 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.160 there there was an Asian family that would make just 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:20.200 it just smelled amazing. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.400 I don't even know what the hell it was, but 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.680 it just sounds great. It smelled great. So there's that. 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:26.880 And then there's always that one person that leaves their 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:27.440 music on. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:31.520 Too lass it's a king of the douches, yes, and 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.040 so you have that and you got to deal with 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.160 that and all, and that's kind of a pain, a 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:37.520 pain in. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.240 The behind, right And yeah, what would you say, though, Ben, 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.880 out of like all the foods, because I know you're 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.560 such a worldly guy too, do you have a type 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.320 of culture food you like the best? 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.040 Well? Living in California here, which is essentially just Mexico, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.000 I love Mexican food, well made, and we have we 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.520 have a we have better Mexican food here there in Mexico. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:56.120 Yeah, we do. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.600 It's insane. I just love it. So say that. And 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:06.000 then I love Italian food as well. I pretty much 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.960 love food. I don't much like you. I do not 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.040 eat that much, so when I eat, I want to 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.560 enjoy my meal because we are both part of the cult. Yes, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.360 of intimute fasting. I'm actually fasting right now. Well I'm 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:24.360 fasting too, let's go see. Yeah, but we have this conversation. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.400 I think we've talked about this before on the podcast. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.440 But I see. I always love seeing Alex when I'm 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.640 coming in and he's leaving, because you're always happy. You're 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.040 always smiling. Yes, probably because you're about to leave, but 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.240 you're always in a good mood. Some people in that 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.960 building are not always in a good mood. Sometimes I'm 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:46.240 not in a good movie. Bad days. And so you're 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.440 you've been trying to get me to do a seven 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.800 day fast? Yes, And how many of these things have 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:52.160 you done? 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.360 So? I've done about four or five sevens and I 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.680 think I'm about to do a fourteen, if not twenty 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:58.360 day right now. 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:00.960 So this is onie like stuff. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:01.360 Yes. 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.439 Yeah, so you've told me that I need to do 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.719 seven Yes. And what do I tell you when you 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.560 bring up this seven day fast? What do I always 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:10.879 tell you? 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.720 You always say if I wasn't married, Yeah, exactly, because. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.800 At some point within a week, I'm going to have 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.359 to go out to have a nice deal with my wife, 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:21.919 and if I don't eat, she'll throw food at me. 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.119 So it is probably now my I'm going to go 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:26.600 to my I'm gonna go to my. Do you have 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:27.679 a fasting app that you use? 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.200 No? I just go in my head with the time. Yeah, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:31.880 oh don't you Just. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.160 Get the apps are free and then you can see 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.399 it's like your your wall of fame. Okay, so. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.000 I will I'm gonna alyst send you this right now. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.680 Because I usually just go off of like the last meal. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.919 So for example, was Monday at five, I made a 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.600 smoothie here and that was the last thing I had. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:52.280 Okay, Yeah, So what I do is, I'm you know, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.120 I'm too cheap to pay for these apps, but I 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.640 you know, keep track of how many fast you've had. Currently, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.720 I've had one thousand and one and forty six consecutive 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.359 fast legend, but that is including multiple day fast so 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.840 that's actually longer than that. Since I started this, michig 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:14.520 Os and the last week I have averaged twenty eight 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.720 hours between meals. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:17.400 That's amazing. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.879 That's on average. So I usually I skipped I've skipped 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.360 a couple of days, so it has all the numbers 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:27.480 like that. But my longest fast let's go page down here, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.040 page down. I think it's still my record is when 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.520 I had my gold bladder situation and I was in 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:41.240 the hospital and I went it was ninety ninety two hours. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:42.959 Wow, big old bladder. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.000 Yes, yeah, back in the back in the day. 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.080 But I will send you this up because it's pretty please, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:49.200 it's pretty cool. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.480 I've just been doing it mentally this entire time. 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.119 Yeah, you might as well. It's free and they do it. 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.359