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It is an 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.200 I Heart podcast, but it is a spinoff of the 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.800 Ben Maller Radio Show and for Better or Worse. We 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.920 are joined from West of the four oh five by 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:35.480 David Gascon. I don't know if it's a I don't 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.640 know what. I don't know if that's accurate to say. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.640 I don't know if it's a spinoff or an upgrade 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.120 over night weekly show, upgrade, upgrade? What thinks us an 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:51.360 upgrade other than you? Upgrade in life and age and enthusiasm, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.680 snob appeal, I got that exactly. I don't know if 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.760 away with snob high brow you can you can do that, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.040 I can do that. The unsavory braggart, you can put 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.960 that in there. Persnickety, that's also use. Pernickety is a 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.560 good word. Yes, it's a fun word, so I use word. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.480 It's a good snipe woord like it's fun like Hornswoggle 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.320 is a good word. Flamm X is a good word. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:16.960 These are the words I need to use more. I 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.800 try to work them into my lexicon, but I need 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.120 you need to use them more. You know what you 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.239 don't use for anger? You don't use livid at all. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.720 I haven't heard you say living in a long time. No, 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:32.680 I do not usually use livid. I use enraged. Infuriated. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.760 It's good. That's that's one that I've used a lot. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.680 Piste off obviously everyone uses that one. Uh. I like, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.760 you know, what's good is on the war path that paints, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.480 that paints a good visual like that, that makes me 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.880 go back to my glory day as of Nintendo sixty 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.480 four with Donkey Kong or something like that. You were 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.880 on the you were on the warpath. But here's any 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.800 vortex of outrage, that's a good one. It's a solid, 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.240 solid way to describe something. Is that what you would 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:07.560 describe the um the Beat and and natural reporters for 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.880 the l A Times are you? Are you referring to 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.440 the Justin Turner story a few days back? Uh? Yeah, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.519 Well listen that we often I work in I guess 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.120 we work in media, and I think this is me 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.880 it kind of it's radio. It's not really it's not 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.920 the normal normal media. But uh yeah, I've never been 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.079 a big fan of the panic peddlers. Uh. And this 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.600 was tremendous. Man chicken little running around ringing the bell. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:41.520 Oh my god, Justin Turner, the Merchant of Doom. It's 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.840 so so ridiculous. And I I didn't know the other 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.120 people were doing having these debates about oh my god, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:47.560 this is the worst thing in the world and all 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.920 this stuff and Turner needs to be suspended and just stop, 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.880 just stop the guy. No one's gonna die from this. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.720 Number one, that's the most important thing. Number two, what 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.280 what are we doing here? He was he was around 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.720 all those guys. It's not like there's a light switch. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.280 As I said on the on the radio the day, 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.840 It's not like a light switch. Were you all of 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.120 a sudden. Well, now, now if he stays away, everything's good. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.400 He was around those guys for days before he finally 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.920 tested positive. So stop. Yeah, And if that's the case, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.000 would you have kept you would have kept fellow Raised 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.200 players off a flight to go back home to Tampa. 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.560 You probably would have kept the entire umpiring crew away 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.040 from boarding a plane and going home. Well exactly. I 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.279 mean that's the thing. Because they claim it takes a 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.680 while for this thing to settle in and take ten days. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.279 Usually it's when in a five day period, it could 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.880 take ten, fourteen days or whatever. So yeah, they seemed 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.880 like they were they were flying when they were flying back, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.919 and uh, you know, the world will go on. I 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.120 think this will this will be all right, but it 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.440 made for some great They must get tremendous ratings here 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.279 with this. You know, if it bleeds, it leads stuff. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.479 And you know, the more lower lured the story, the 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:02.560 better the ray things are gonna be. And there you go. Yeah, 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.720 my favorite is not reading the article, but reading the 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.880 comments or reading the comments to the tweet from said publication, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.920 like that was the best. Well, what's it's great because 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.960 it's a lot of hacks, media hacks making it all 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.800 about them, you know, about their emotions and how they 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.359 were affected by Justin Turner's actions. It's it's very amusing, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.600 it is. It's good, But that's the world we live 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.920 in now. And as you've gotta know, you've gotta you 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.159 gotta make it all is, make it all about you, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.839 play the victim card rights the whole cottage industry there. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.160 It's bewildering, but there's no end in. So it's that 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.520 twisted logic that is going on. But it's the way 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.600 of the world. But who is guilty about this? Like, 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.159 think about this for a second, because you get you 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.880 get journalists and reporters and hosts on both sides, but 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:57.040 they're clearly advocates for something or someone who's guilty of that. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.440 The most though, is the people writing their checks or 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.440 is the is the way that the media is now 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.400 where people can be on a television at any given 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.800 time and gain that celebrity status immediately. It's like it's 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.320 a self fulfilling prophecy. Though. The media like they hire 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.400 people that come from the same background educational wise, and 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.080 they they don't know for sure, but they have a 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.680 pretty good idea of their leanings on different issues, and 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.479 so they hire these people and then you know they're 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.240 from all different backgrounds, but they have the same beliefs 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.560 system So it ends up in the situation when but 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:38.320 uh so, normally on on our Friday podcast, we have 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.800 a conversation some old radio friend that I've known over 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.719 the years, or a political pundit or whoever we get on, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.080 we'll put on. We've had athletes on this week, though 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:56.320 we decided not to do that because we would like 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.520 to use our a lot of time a little bit differently. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.679 I don't know if you know this, but next week 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.440 is going to be a crazy week in American history 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.160 because on Tuesday, and it probably won't be decided on Tuesday, 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.680 but there's a little presidential election and uh, and then 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.000 you know, take a day or two or three or four, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.520 who the hell knows, but that is going to be 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.080 the number one story. And so I thought we would 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.720 try to decode it. And there's a couple of things 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.880 we're gonna do here on this podcast. The first thing 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.160 we're gonna do is give the Mallard Handbook to voting, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.160 the Mallor Handbook Voting. And then the second thing we're 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.880 going to do is going to try to decipher um 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:40.400 the gambling odds because when you look at the you know, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.440 the election, people are on one side or the other, right, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.120 you know, people obviously it's split pretty close to down 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.760 the middle in the country where you got half Republicans, 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.240 half Democrats and all that stuff. So the the thing 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:58.120 about gambling here is this is actually something that can 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.360 bring us all together. Right, this this is now you 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.400 can laugh, but this is something for the common goal 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:09.280 of making money. Right. Politics are known to divide people, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.160 and you're cliches. You're not supposed to talk about them 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.960 when you're Thanksgiving dinner, you're hanging out with your loved 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.720 ones over any holidays. But if you can make money 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.920 if you're a Democrat and you can wake a couple 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.840 of bucks and you bet on Trump to win a 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.320 state that you're and he's all but guaranteed to win, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.880 why would you not do that? And if you're even 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.600 if you're Republican, you know, do you think Joe Biden's 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.199 gonna lose California? I mean, that's easy money right there. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.000 You put a bet down, Bam, you win a couple 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.439 of bucks. Um, So we're gonna hammer that. So that's 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.400 what's on the agenda, and anything else that pops up 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.880 is that is that? Okay, I guess gonna be a provably. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:51.560 I'm really curious about the Mallard school of voting. All right, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.319 So the Mallard school of voting is pretty simple. I 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.400 I've I learned this years ago. Now I'm the only 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.400 one in the entire state that I live in that 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.880 does this. But essentially, there's so many propositions and nobody 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:04.640 really has the time to go through all of them 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.800 unless you're like a retired person, and then you have 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:08.400 the time to go through all the all the prepositions. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:14.040 So what I do my move is, does this increase taxes? 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.280 If in any way there's a tax increase. No. My 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:23.120 default position on all props, all all propositions is no, no, no, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:28.720 no no. Now lately I have added another thing just 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.480 in California here where I live, and I really want 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.679 to thank the people spending money on advertising here because 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.520 what I've noticed is when I see a commercial and um, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.800 you know, so and so proposition is endorsed by Gavin Newsom, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.360 that's a no. Even if it's not involving tax, that's 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.800 a no. Uh So anything he does, so that's that's it. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.040 And as far as the political things, uh, you know, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:55.720 you don't have to go. I think one of the 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.720 big things here is you don't. It's a test. You 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.600 don't have to answer all the questions. People think you 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.440 have to fill out every part of the ballot or 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.559 the ballot's not complete. Some people think that. I don't 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.680 know why it says on the ballot you don't have 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.800 to but um, you know, if you don't have any 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.920 clue and you think you didn't study up, then don't 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.599 you don't have to vote? I mean, you don't have 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.560 to fill out every part of the ballot, is what 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:22.040 I'm trying to say. So that's pretty much the basics there. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.679 When it comes to the propositions anything involving taxes. No, 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.600 they got enough of my money. Reallocate the money, find 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.559 a way to spend the money better. You got enough 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.240 of it, you don't need any more of it. And uh. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.400 And there's also just a general belief here which a 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.720 lot of a lot of people, the uneducated apparently to understand. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.439 There is no such thing as a free lunch, like 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.200 if you know, always be a free education, free you know, medicine, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.880 somebody's gonna pay for it, free health care exactly, that's healthcare, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.840 medic but someone's gonna pay for it, and so stop 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.200 and person is gonna pay for it in one way 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.520 or another? Is you so you know, But it's that 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.280 that magic trick you can convince stupid people. Well, no, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.400 you're gonna get it for free. You're not gonna know 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.000 they're gonna get that money out of you one way 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.360 or another, so you just you won't realize what's going on, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.600 and you'll think you're getting something. It's like anything way, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.360 no business gives crap away for free without the thinking 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.320 that they're going to get something in return for it. Right, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.760 It's it's beautiful in the sense nowadays to which people 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.160 don't realize that or see it until it hits him 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:30.120 upside the face. And I'll give you a perfect example 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.160 of this. I had um. I had surgery a couple 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:38.880 of years ago to fix a deviated septum, and Bennon, 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.240 when it came time to pay the pipe piper, I 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:48.440 had four different bills from four different parties. Uh an anesthesiologist, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:55.720 a surgeon, the regular doctor that operated on me, and 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:01.240 then also the hospital all getting their cut one different 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.800 way or another, as opposed to like the old school 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.840 days when they would just build you right through the hospital. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:09.880 But now it's like the doctors are having to pay 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.120 to use the hospital for their surgery, so now they 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.920 have to take it out of you in order to 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:19.360 get compensated for what they're doing Insteade hospital and operating room. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.200 So it's kind of like when you go to the barbershop. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.840 A lot of these barbershops they rent out the chairs 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.560 of the barbershop and okay, all right, so it's the same. Yeah. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.560 I remember my mom, you know, miss she Rest in Peace, 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.319 was sick and she was in the hospital a lot 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:37.560 with different things, and you get the the check. They 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.400 just keep coming in like the little these checks one 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.040 by one for different different tests that were done in 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:47.360 different craps that was done. Um, it's pretty pretty crazy. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.280 And then the other thing is obviously the UM I 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:53.760 don't know is the exploitation, the taking advantage of the insurance, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.400 not that anybody has, not that anyone has sympathy or 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.360 empathy for you know, big time major insurance companies. Right, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.040 these are big, monstrous operations. But you know when you 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:10.319 charge the hospital charges five dollars for the Thailand all 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.760 pill because they can and they know the insurance will 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.199 pay it. A little sketching, Yeah, it's it's a it's 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.480 a trillion dollar industry. And I'll put it this way, Ben, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:26.000 is that doctors are there to to fix you. They're 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.440 not there to help you get better. You know, if 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.679 that was the case in medical school, they would teach 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.040 all of these guys about nutrition, and they fucking don't 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.600 and we're suckers. Well well yeah, it's like the well 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.120 that's the whole conspiracy, you want to go deep state 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:47.960 Illuminati conspiracy that you know, if if they did have 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.040 a cure for cancer, would they release it like a 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.040 general cure because see the problem with cancers like a 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.160 million different kinds of cancers. But if they found a 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.920 magic placebo, would they release it because a lot of 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:05.000 money is generated from people that have to get chemotherapy 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.120 and have to have treatments and all that stuff. And um, 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.079 now I think they would, And I'll tell you why. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.640 The Mather theory, my my working theory on this is 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.880 they would. If they found a magic cure for cancer, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.520 they would. There'd just be another illness that would pop 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.160 up that would replace it. You know, they'd move the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:24.880 goalposts a little bit and they'd be like, all right, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.440 well there's no more cancer, hallelujah. But we'll we'll figure 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.760 something else out of here, and then we're we're good 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.680 to go. As long as we have a big illness 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.040 that will take down certain percentage of the population and 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.360 keep them in the hospital, we're good to go. Well, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.680 we got a lot. We got diabetes, we got heart attacks, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:45.360 we got Alzheimer's dementia. Obviously, Um, you know, people die. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.840 Oh there's a there's a ton of ways to get 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.840 sick and die, and we're all gonna choose one of 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.520 them eventually. If we're lucky enough to live long enough 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.000 to have one of those take us out and not 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.000 die suddenly. So yeah, that's good times. That'd be curious though, Yeah, 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.160 I mean because a lot of this stuff too. Don't 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:06.840 forget these guys have heavy, heavy money involved in stocks 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.040 and and all these. Yeah, yeah, they have a financial 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.520 incentive to keep certain things going the way they are. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.160 But then then the flip side of that is there's 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.920 also people that invest uh. And I won't reveal any 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.880 names here, I will not I will protect the guilty, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.360 But who invest in medical companies like this whole Corona thing, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.360 like this COVID nineteen. There are people gambling right now 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.160 on the stock market that they will bet on the 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:35.920 medical company that comes up with the the vaccine uh. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.440 And then they get the deal, and you know, every 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.560 country buys a you know, gazillion of these vaccine things 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.800 and then they make all the money in their profits 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.080 go through the roof and the stock goes up, and 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:48.960 then whoever invested in that makes a ton of money. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.480 So it does work the other way too, Yes, it does. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.640 Cut you wouldn't be one of those people, would you guess? 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.680 I am one of those people. But they say, like, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:00.560 don't don't work for the comp that you want to 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.640 be in bed with, invest in the company that you 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:03.960 want to be in bed with, and that's what I'm 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:07.400 trying to do. But you know, like we you know, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.880 a lot of companies nowadays, especially here in the world 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:12.400 of COVID, they've pulled back on their four oh one 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:17.840 K contributions. So I have, in turn decided to not 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.480 put money into my four oh one K and invested 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.280 on my own accord. And so that's been doing homework 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.560 and bullshitting with you about certain stocks. Another it was 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.360 great back in the old days, were like matched the 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.200 four oh one kid was Oh my god, it was 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.720 fifty fifty. Whatever you have dollar you put in, they 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:41.720 give you an extra dollar. It was great. Uh, I 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.560 don't I don't remember, but I it only it didn't 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.160 last that. It was only the first couple of years 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.400 I got in a radio. But uh yeah, it's it's 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:56.280 gone the other way. No, but I listen. I I 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.400 have a guy I used blind Scott for a while 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.240 that didn't work out so well, and another guy that 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.320 didn't work out so well. But the guy got now 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.120 is pretty good. It's pretty good. He's pretty sharp. Kind 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.639 of an advisor who pays attention. I pay attention a 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:11.680 little bit, but you know you don't want to. You're 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:16.440 playing with real money here. It's kind of like exactly. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.280 It's which which makes me all the more maddening that 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.520 you can't, actually, or you couldn't up until recently, gamble 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.720 on sports and so of these states. But betting on 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.840 a penny stock becoming a big time player on Wall Street, 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.000 that's perfectly fine. That's perfectly of course. What I what 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.000 I did with Blind Scott is he gave me the 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.240 one weed company that that sucked and couldn't sell weed, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.280 and so that was like a good stock that became 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.040 a penny stock. Yeah, with the other way. But then 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.880 I get emails every once in a while from from 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.080 Blind Scott, my guy in Boston, who tells me how 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.000 much money he just made by some investment. I shake 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.440 my head every time I see, well, you schmuck, you schmuck. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.359 You did not give me that advice. I dare you 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.560 you did not give me the advice. But see the 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.640 the old, the old advice that that Warren Buffett gave 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.399 back in the day, as he says, don't don't invest 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.200 in in many stocks, like, only invest in a handful 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.080 of them, and that'll take you to where you want 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.640 to go. Like you know, it's a gambling You don't 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.240 want to bet on every single game in the NFL. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.639 You want to bet on like two or three that 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.800 you feel the best about. It's called discipline, money management, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.200 and discipline, which is the reason. The main reason people 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.359 think the reason that gamblers don't win on sports is 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.280 because of you. It's so hard, it's too hard, and 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.960 all that stuff. It is difficult. But the number one 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.640 reason I've heard from people who work in that industry, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.160 the gambling industry, the number one thing is there's no 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.480 self control. I'm in Vegas. I gotta bet on the game. 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.920 There's only one game left. I'm gonna bet on it. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:18:59.840 Even if it's a ship bet and it's it's a 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.719 terrible bet, you still bet on it because you're there. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:03.560 You want to have a little action. I'll never forget 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.280 the the grandma in front of me at the sports 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.880 book window, who bet? I think it was like ten 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.560 grand if I remember correctly, I know the number changes 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.240 every time because I was so but she bet thousands 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.120 of dollars on the Saints to win the Super Bowl 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.680 a year they did not win the Super Bowl because 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.160 she was from Louisiana and she was, you know, from 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.359 the you know, the land of the Bayou, and she 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.800 wanted to bet on her Saints and she did and 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.520 you know, thousands of dollars just because you know, it's 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.040 not that's not good money management. It's not. And the 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.040 other thing also, which is I bring this up a lot, 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:42.000 and I apologize if you've already heard it a million times. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:46.879 Bad job by me. But the sports books and the 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:50.399 people running the gambling websites, anytime somebody hits like a 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.920 seven team parlay, they love to tweet that out. They 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.359 love to promote that. Why would they promote that, because 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:01.119 that's they're losing money on that. No, they know for 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:05.480 that one guy that makes twenty thousand or fifty thousand 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.680 dollars on a seventeen parlay, that they will make their 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.560 money back in spades on other people, that it's a 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.320 sucker bet to bet to parlays. And so they know, hey, 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.480 let me put this out there. And I like the 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.159 story too. It's great to see somebody who you know, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.520 bets seven random games and hits them all and went 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.600 a bunch of money. But I know that for Joe Blow, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:30.560 that ain't gonna happen, and so I got sidetracked and 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.440 I started with my political analysis on how to how 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.800 to vote, and we morphed into do you have any 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.240 tips gascons west of the four oh five tips anything 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.680 that involves tax increasy sc sc SC sc S. Is 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.440 that the guest gon strategy I, um, so the tax 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.640 strategy like you you actually mentioned it hit the nail 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.760 run on the head, is that you look for retired 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.560 people that have time to break this down and and 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:58.240 talk about it. Um. I have two friends, um, both 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.679 of their parents actually move out of California because of 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:05.119 said taxes and have moved to states like Idaho and Utah. 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:08.399 But they're all in in tune with what's going on 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.880 politically in in the state of California. And then also 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.000 the chief I had my dad and also go through 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.320 this stuff with me too, and so all three people, 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.679 Ben I kid, you not came to the same conclusion 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.800 on the prop beds here in California. No across the 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:29.320 board except yes on twenty and twenty two. I know 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:32.360 for those we have a lot of listeners in California, 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:36.560 So walk through twy need to be a yes, all right, 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.000 So I gotta I gotta pull this bad boy up 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.960 because I had a lot of them that were this 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:45.560 the Is this the one with the property taxes is 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.920 somehow related to that or no? Yeah? So two has 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.840 to do with the contracted employers and the employees. So 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:58.720 if you do recall like Uber and lift, and I 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.800 think that's the extent to like door Dash and some 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:04.560