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Make sure you can follow me on Twitter 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.600 for all your latest and greted stock advice. I can 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.280 definitely hop out in that kind of capacity. I'm the 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.400 stock guy. I'm the I'm the stock guy. Listen, my 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.079 um my positions are strong right now. I just leave 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.400 it at that. You're just ripping stuff off Wall Street 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.840 bets or whatever is all. I definitely have not doing that. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.280 I haven't gotten down a dark web of of Reddit 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.560 and um and if I did, I would be owing 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.400 a lot more than the market. The last few days 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.480 did not go that well as we're doing the podcast. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.040 So but you know the upside down, you're in the 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.200 long game. On man, you're not in the short game. 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.560 You're in the long game. That's write all aggressive all 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.280 the time. It would be a little bit different if 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.400 I was in a different age bracket, but that's not 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.480 the position of them in right now. So I don't know. 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.520 If you have a mirror in your house, you might 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.280 want to look at the mirror because you change your 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.359 perspective on investing. Yeah, I'm just saying, I don't know. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.760 I do need a haircut drifting along a little bit there. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.280 We do need some thumbs up and some five stars 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.200 and some reviews in the podcast on Apple iTunes. So 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.120 if you guys can a your lazy asses over there 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.040 and dropped me a kind note, I'd appreciate it. That. Yeah, 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.799 I mean, let me point out that, Um, you might 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:09.840 think that doesn't matter who the hell cares. And I've 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.680 said this before and I'll say it again. You know 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.160 I would agree with you, like it's just that you 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.320 know who reads the reviews. But trust me, people who 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.519 have corner offices and make a lot of money and 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.959 decide who gets what and where they value that crap. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.160 So who am I to judge? But it just it's 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.840 simple to do. I't it's a pain in the ass, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.679 but it's not that hard. It's painless and it does 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.840 help us out. Speaking of corner offices, since most people 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.720 aren't even operating out of an office anymore, have you 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.720 gotten any more any more stories from I'm a Pilot? 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:49.080 Oh you know, I'm a pilot sent me a wonderful hat. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.120 I I am so, I am hat rich. Guess the 0:03:53.160 --> 0:04:00.720 Mallard militia has rallied around rallied around me. And I'm 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.320 a pilot is so because you know he's listen, he's 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.080 more of my friend than your friend. You think he's 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.560 your friend. He's horn swoggled you into thinking you know 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.720 that that you guys are tighten all that, but you're not. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:13.240 But I'm a pilot, he he said me in this 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:19.279 really cool hat. It's from the Montgomery Biscuits, but it's 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.360 got Yeah. But my my my thing is I try 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.200 to I have a lot of different hats, but my 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.000 but the hats I go to the most often. I 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.200 love college hats from random colleges. And I love hats 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.040 with either B for Ben, like the Brooklyn Dodger hat 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.320 that I'm wearing right now, or the B for the 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.320 Bakersfield Blaze that you destroyed. That's a team you're ruined. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.919 I have that and then and then I don't have 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.800 too many M hats, but this Montgomery Biscuits it's it's 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.440 like a classical looking hat. It's got the M on it. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.680 And so that's pretty cool. And thanks to all the 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.800 hat benefactors. That was very nice. But that cheered me up. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.760 You know, I was pretty depressed, as you might imagine. 0:04:57.920 --> 0:04:59.760 Uh And I went to get the mail and I 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.200 hadn't picked up the mail in a very long time, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.520 and there were a lot of people were very nice, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.640 and I thank you guys. I do appreciate that. It's 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.360 very nice. But I'm a pilot was one of the 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.560 people that was the hat benefactor, the hat benefactor, so 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.919 that was that was pretty cool. He sent that in 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.359 nothing for you though I didn't see anything for you. Yeah, 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.240 I didn't see anything for you. Very nice, very kind. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.919 I want to point that out. Uh So, is there 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.520 anything else that we need to get to before we 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:27.840 get into the mail. Bag. I'm trying to think of 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.760 anything else that I wanted to get to here. Let's 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:35.000 see you check that box, check that box. Uh No, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.360 I think we'll just get into it. Yes, yeah, that's fine. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.039 All right. This is the actual mailbag. These are questions 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.840 sent in by random listeners like yourself. If you would 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.600 like to submit a question for a future edition of 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.400 the Mailbag, you can do that two ways now. The 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.480 most popular way is on the show Facebook page. Ben 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:57.039 Mall Show Wednesday, usually in the morning West Coast time, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.919 early morning West Coast time, mid more ng on the 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:06.599 East coast. I will post a message. Normally attached is 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.440 some fine art from Ostrich Aunt, who was just an 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.880 amazingly talented artist, just an amazingly talented artist. And he 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:20.400 draws his little cartoon drawings and he's you think of 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:25.599 the greats? Do you think of Michael Angelo, Van Gold, Rembrand, Matisse, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.400 Da Vinci and Austro chant No, he's he's this guy 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.520 is great, more like a Vermier. Maybe one of my favorites. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.800 I quote this guy lies Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol had 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.360 had a great line and anything, uh and everything can 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.840 be art, Anything and everything could be art, and uh, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.479 and that's good. And one of his other quotes was 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.920 life is just a series of images that change as 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.120 they repeat themselves. But that's Austro chance. So anyway, first 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.280 question comes from John the Jailer and Allan Town, Pennsylvania. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:07:01.159 He says, bent the Costco food sample warres have returned. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.479 Have you been able to bartake John? This is a 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.320 great question. I was just at Costco the other day. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.280 I go to Costco at least once a week, sometimes 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:11.200 twice a week. Uh. The answer is no, because in 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.679 California it's the biggest teas in the world. What they've 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.160 done at the local Costco where I live. They do 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:24.360 have the sample workers back at Costco, but they don't 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.200 actually have the samples. They sit at the same tables 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.040 they used to give out the good East the stuff 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.200 back in the day, and they sit there and they 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.840 have like if they're That was in the Costco a 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.600 couple of days ago, as I said, and they had 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.920 a they were trying to get the granola bars, trying 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.120 to get people to buy granola bars. So they had 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.120 the woman who had the woman was sitting there and 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.360 she had the Costco sample outfit on and she was 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.400 at a little table, and then she had a granola bar, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.520 and then there was a plastic container over the granola bar, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.800 so you could observe the granola bar, but you could 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.680 not actually eat a sample of said granola bar. So 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.160 it's bull crap. It's absolute bull crap, is what it is. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.840 And so you know, I don't know that's because a 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.840 king New summer or whatever, but you can't they're not 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.120 actually handing out the samples. Now, when they do, I'll 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.320 do the hokey pokey. I'll put my right foot in, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.240 I'll take my right foot out, you know, the whole thing. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.920 I'll put my right hand in, I'll take my Yeah. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.080 But they don't have that right So don't point that. 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.320 You don't go to Costco because you're west of the 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.200 four oh five. So you go there for gas, whole 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.600 foods probably, I would imagine you Whole Foods is really 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:37.559 taxing on a paycheck. Yeah, I I have a relative 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.640 of my in law is one of them live over Unfortunately, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.480 west of the four or five. I did go to 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.520 the Costco in I think it's in Torrance, and there's 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.120 like a car wash. Yep, there's a car wash there. Yeah, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.640 right next never I've never seen I've never seen a 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.240 costco with the car wash. We do things a little 0:08:55.240 --> 0:09:00.319 bit differently West of the four or five better, bigger, sexy, better, 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.120 more efficient, just your standard car wash. I didn't think 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.000 it was any better than any other car wash. They 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.880 had a car cost effective. Yeah, something sweet about being 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:11.640 west of the four or five. All right, Chris and 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.800 Iowa writes in He's got a couple of points he 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.280 wants to make. Chris says the Sunday podcast was missing 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.839 the beginning, there was no intro and in the middle 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.360 of a question, so I guess something happened in the 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.600 middle of a question. This is Chris and Ila just 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.640 complaining in again, touch up on that kind of a 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.040 customer service, a weekly tradition from Chris and Ila. What 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.280 can I bitch about to the Chris and Ila. So 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.000 you're saying there's no customer satisfaction guarantee for the fifth 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.160 hour podcast? Is that what you're saying? No, I mean 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:51.320 any guarantees. So guess saying go fund yourself. There you go, 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.760 very nice. Do not be a discerning customer at all? No, no, no, 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:58.839 I guess Gon does not like that. It's a willer 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.319 Coaster of Life. That is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:06.640 Chris and Iowa says music on or off during sex? 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.120 He says he votes no, and Chris, of course, it 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.840 depends on where you are in life. Uh. You know, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.080 on a certain point in my life, I didn't care 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.640 if there was music, if there was an opera playing. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.679 It was just getting getting a little bit of action. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.360 There was all that. But I don't think back. But 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.280 sometimes some music in the backgrounds. Fine, doesn't it doesn't matter. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.320 I don't I don't really have I don't hate it 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:35.520 needed but anyway, Jeff from Clarksville, Indiana, just across the 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.360 Ohio River from Louisville, says, what is the absolute best 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:44.839 prank you have ever pulled on someone? And who was? Oh? Man? Yeah, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.760 I mean I'm trying to think what I could say that. Actually, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.200 you know, the statue of limitations is run out, but 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.199 the one that mean it's kind of a cheese ball. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.240 One we used to do before the internet really blew 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.320 up was every April fools Day. It was usually the 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.000 start of baseball right around April fools Day, and there 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.120 was a buddy of mine who I would fool every year. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:08.040 I would take an old AP story about a trade, 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.040 and then I would change the words around the teams 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.640 and the players so it looked like an official AP 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.280 wire story, and I would just I would send an 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.400 email to my my friends, did you see this? I 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.800 cut I don't worry, I copied and pasted it for you. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.960 And it was some big trade and the dummy would 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.040 he would fall for it, like every like two out 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.160 of three years he fell for the same thing. And 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.440 then there's the other standard standard pranks that you would 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.480 do back in in high school and all that. Um, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.839 but I mean, I don't think there's anything outside the norm. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.520 What about you guess I'm big prankster. No, I mean 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.120 I was, but there's nothing I can disclose here. It's 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:55.120 just it's not reliability reasons. Yeah. Yeah, it was very immature. Alright, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.240 Big Mike, not the Big Mike that works at Fox 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.800 Sports trade. This is a different Big Mic, not to 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.319 be confused with our Big Mike. Big Mike in Courtland, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.280 New York, and he says, in the last three weeks, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.320 the price of gasoline has gone up nearly thirty cents. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.960 I wonder why how is it in California? Is awful 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.720 it's hovering towards four dollars right now. It's anywhere between 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.000 three fifty and three eight spots I've seen. Yeah, it's 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.880 it's brutal. It's we call that the Biden effect is 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.200 what we call that. But California, it's hard to really 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.040 get a read on this because we pay isn't it 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:31.120 like a dollar fifty right? In taxes per gallon? How 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.520 much is it per gallon onto? It's it's it used 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.360 to be fifty cents. I think it's closer to a 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.640 dollar now in gas tax federal and local gas tax 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.839 in California. So the same gas that you would get 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:50.720 in Texas, for Oklahoma, for you know, two dollars and 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.160 ten cents in California, as you pointed out, would be 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.520 three dollars. And you know something. So it's but fear 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.040 not the minimum wage will be praised and that will 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.599 still be applicable for people in New York and in California. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.680 Is it wrong to point out that we should try 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.280 to get people to not work for the medimu to 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.079 uh that that is the floor. You don't want to 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.280 be the floor. You want to be on the ceiling. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.440 You want to be at the floor. You want to 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.880 strive to be closer to the ceiling. And is that? 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.520 Why did? Why is that so bad? Why are you 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.240 the bad person if you say that? I don't know 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.439 the world we live in. H yeah, Oh, people get triggered. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.320 Do you see the other day? Um, what's the the 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:36.120 guy that the investment guy? Jim Kramer? No, not Jim Kramer. Um, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.200 he does a radio show. Trying to think of the 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.520 guy's name, and it's like how to save money for retirement? 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:49.360 Not Charles Paine, No, No, he's Um, what's the guy's name? 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:53.839 I'm trying to think of the Dave Ramsey. That's Dave Ramsey. 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:57.880 So Dave Ramsey. The other day he went on a 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.800 rant on TV and he said he didn't believe in 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.640 the stimulus check. He didn't care whether it was like 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:10.000 six d um and he didn't give a change your life, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.680 he says. He says, if that did change your life, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.800 you were pretty much screwed anyway. That is what he was. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.480 But which is the same argument about the minimum wage? Right, Like, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.280 if you're you know, I understand you start out, maybe 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.080 you're doing the minimum wage, but at some point you've 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.080 got to find a way to get above that. And 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.240 that was like Ramsey was just getting destroyed, right, he 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:37.600 was just getting destroyed for debunking debunking the stimulus check. 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.600 Then yeah, I actually read a couple of articles that said, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.040 if you really wanted to be true to inflation, the 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.720 minimum wage should actually be twenty four dollars in this country. Well, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.240 there was a guy the other day that had a 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.040 good point, and it shouldn't The minimum wage should not 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.600 be the same. Forget where I saw this, but it 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.320 shouldn't be the same in New York and California as 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.320 he is in Oklahoma's cheaper to live in Oklahoma, right, 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.120 seper live in Kansas than it is in California should 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.640 be higher in California, New York and lower in those places. Right, Yeah, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.880 I don't get it, but I mean throw her at 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.120 right now on my own. Well, man, we gotta treat 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.960 everyone the same even though they don't pay the same taxes, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.080 you know, and think, come on, it's ridiculous anyway, all right, 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.160 thank you for that big Mike Kevin in Kansas, right, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.120 since says Mr Mallard and Mr Gasca, thank you for 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.160 the three weekly fifth hour podcast. How about this guy 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:35.200 Kevin's appreciative. Yeah, he's appreciative. My idea continue. Really yeah, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.280 all right, he says. I listened to them, and as 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.320 I do some long runs on the weekends working out, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.200 how about that, keep running. Breathe breathe in, breathe out, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.240 breathe in, breathe out. Kevi At. Another question is, don't 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.880 slack Kevin? Run harder, you jackass, run harder. And as 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:57.280 he's running on a trail concrete, sand or grass, I'm 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.360 gonna say he's in Kansas, it's cold, he's on a redmill. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.040 How about that. I'm gonna say he's on a track, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.120 like one of those wood chip trails and tracks. Well, 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:08.680 it could be like that guy Mark the Walker in 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.640 Rochester who's out every morning at like three in the 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:15.800 morning in ten degree weather with snow walking around Rochester 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.920 for some reason, I don't know why, but he does 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.600 it and walking we go or whatever. He says. Its 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.480 trademark guy. But this is listen to this sucking up. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.240 I think this Kevin in Kansas is actually you. Well, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.280 I think it's you or your dad or your you know, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:34.360 one of your relatives there, because Kevin says, not only 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.840 is your chemistry perfect for the format. I'm always learning something. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.640 How did you match up this partnership, he says. Was 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.520 it a try out of forced pairing that worked or 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:53.080 just blind good luck? He says, keep up the great shows. Well, Kevin, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.640 that's tremendous, tremendous sucking up. I I mean, you just 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.720 gave me a bubble bath, is what you did, and 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.440 may any and a petty and I thank you for that. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.679 But we were forced. It's a forced marriage, forced marriage 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.159 by management and uh gascon trying to get out of 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.040 the marriage. As you know, he's missed a lot of 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.040 time on the podcast. As you know, he does not 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.720 like doing the podcast, but we we drag him in 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.719 here occasionally to do the podcast. We do. Yeah, I'm here. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.200 That's how that your partnership began. Forced marriage. We brought 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.359 the old guy from the terrestrial radio world into the 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.760 digital frame and now here. Shot Gun wedding, shotgun wedding. 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.120 Have you been to any of those like in shotgun weddings? Yeah, 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.720 any of those or even um uh you know, like 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.720 could he get um on the tip of my tongue 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.960 when you go to like Vegas just on driven by them? Yeah, 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.760 when they have the little wedding parlors or whatever. Yeah, 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.480 I mean I've sure been by those, have I had? 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.680 You know, I did not. I I eloped. I went 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:56.080 to Hawaii away from everyone, on a deserted beach. Yeah, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.359 but you didn't. I mean, can you consider your wedding 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.720 in a lope because you had you know, you had 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.040 you guys were both dressed up. Well yeah, but we 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.920 were dressed up and we had a person. We had 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.440 the person doing the wedding, uh, you know, reading the vow, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:12.360 you know, having us go through the ceremony, and then 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.200 we had a camera person that was it. Who is 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:19.120 your witness? The camera person? Because we did we didn't 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.200 know anybody. I mean, we were you know, I've never 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.879 I've been to Kwai when I was a kid, but 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.159 I didn't know anybody and on the Garden Island. I 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.720 love Kauai. Okay, if it wasn't so far away from 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.280 I just moved there. So great. It's good man, paradise, Man, 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.320 it's paradise. What a beautiful place. So when you got there, though, 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.760 did you have to fly into Honolulu and then take 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:38.840 a small plane over? How did that work? Well? No, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.879 they have direct flights into Kauai but we got we 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.640 were offered a deal. We got bumped. So we did 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:51.399 actually fly into Honolulu and then go to Poi poo. Uh. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.200 We we took the flight over there because uh, they 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.040 gave us some funny money for future flight. Yeah. So 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.680 I was like, we all had to wait a couple 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.399 extra hours. So we just like sat at L A 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.160 X and waited and you know whatever, read our phones 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:09.280 and made a made a extra money. I always back 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.800 when planes were full all the time, I loved getting bumped, 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.120 bumpitty bump. I loved it because you get a little 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.840 extra phony money future trips. It's the way to do 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.159 it unless you really have to be somewhere. All right, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:25.480 Charlie in Memphis and he says, uh, what the hell 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.040 do you mean by salad days? He says, what the 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:29.600 hell do you mean by salad days? Since I'm not 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:33.919 a degenerate gambler, how does plus or minus one fifty 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.199 or any other number equate to the percentage of odds? 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.800 All right, so you've got two things here, and well 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:42.480 I'll hold your hand and I'll walk you through these 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.399 two things. Now, as far as the salad days, that 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.960 is actually showing how smart I am I'm when I 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:52.040 use the term salladays. That is a Shakespearean expression. Salad 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.119 days goes back to Shakespeare, and it's from one of 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:04.160 Shakespeare's places. It means a younger point in your life. Uh, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:11.159 innocence in discretion, Uh, those type of things. Uh. You 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.879 know like Tom Brady, you would say his salad days 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.119 were with the Patriots even though he just won a 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.640 Super Bowl, but his glory days were were a few 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.760 years ago. So that it's just another way. It's a 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:24.960 cute way of saying you were better then. You know 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:28.200 my salad days when I was doing local mid days 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:31.399 in l A. That is, you know that those are 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:36.320 my salad days. Yeah, not working with you. As far 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.080 as the odds are concerned, well, plus minus the way 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.000 this works, I'll give you the Simpleton version as I 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:47.600 know it. So minus would be the favorite, right minus me. 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.639 So like if I if it was minus one fifty, 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.359 that would imply there's a sixty percent chance that something's 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.240 gonna happen, that a team is gonna win the game. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:59.800 So and then the underdog is the plus. So if 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.720 it's plus one fifty, that implies that there's only a 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:08.360 forty percent chance. So that's that's how that works. I mean, 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.280 you can go as high as you want. You know, 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.880 you can go. If it's plus three thousand, that would 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.480 mean there's only a three percent chance, and obviously if 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.040 it's minus three thousand, there's almost a ninety seven percent 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.320 chance of something happening. Well, again, that's the those are 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:26.320 the implied odds. And obviously they set the line the casino, 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.399 the sports book. They just want equal money. They don't 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.200 care who wins. They want to win and the way 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.639 they win. They set the opening line. It's the gambling 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.639 public that actually establishes the final line, and if you 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.800 bet too much on either side, they'll adjust the line 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:46.600 to try to get people to bet the other way. 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.280 And then don't forget for the gambling purposes, if it's 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:52.040 minus one fifty, you have to bet a hundred and 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.440