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Speaker 1: from West of the four oh five. Listen, Mr lat
Speaker 1: Da David Gascon. I'm here there. I am a lot
Speaker 1: and proud lot. No no cheering, no applause, none of
Speaker 1: that stuff. You know, things are still in doubt, so
Speaker 1: we need to go into probably the month of December
Speaker 1: before we can get that loud, roaring ovation. But no, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is really this political stuff is affecting you. I've
Speaker 1: noticed there's you're off your normal annoying guests on routine,
Speaker 1: Like do you really troubled by the would you mean
Speaker 1: my normal annoying self. I've just I've just noticed this
Speaker 1: week is in our brief interactions. I've noticed you don't
Speaker 1: even know what the funk I do during the week.
Speaker 1: Why are you so defensive because you come to be
Speaker 1: like I'm triggered by something like yeah, I just noticed
Speaker 1: that you're a little affected by everything going on. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm fine. I mean there'll be a president and
Speaker 1: then that my life will not really change much at all.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't believe other than full you didn't
Speaker 1: checking out the prop votes that were bettered against. What's that?
Speaker 1: I voted against every prop but the Uber deal or
Speaker 1: whatever they But as far as the taxes going up,
Speaker 1: anything with tax going up, I voted, Yeah, Well, those
Speaker 1: actually lost. We're gonna have increase in state taxes. Come come,
Speaker 1: hell or high water, look came, and our taxes will
Speaker 1: be right. So the property tax thing went up, I
Speaker 1: think it was Prop fourteen was was green let the
Speaker 1: property tax? I believe it was another one. I did
Speaker 1: see that California rejected um rent control and they did
Speaker 1: reject no cash bail. That's it. Well, if the mortgage
Speaker 1: thing went up, this is good because I can finally move.
Speaker 1: I can convince my wife you get the hell out
Speaker 1: of here and go to a place where they actually
Speaker 1: respect their citizens and don't gouge them with taxes. So
Speaker 1: that could be a good thing. Is it would be
Speaker 1: a short term pain for the long term gain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what I mean California is what one and a
Speaker 1: quarter percent of your property value assessed value? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: I haven't read. I don't know what you're talking. I
Speaker 1: didn't see the guideline that I knew. One of the
Speaker 1: props was they would raise the property taxes tremendously. Um
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's the one you're referring
Speaker 1: to or if that is something else. No, No, I've
Speaker 1: just been in general. Are are general state tax for property?
Speaker 1: I think it's one in a quarter percent or at
Speaker 1: least enough. But they had the thing that was, you know,
Speaker 1: my father, because they bought the house a long time ago,
Speaker 1: their property taxes have stayed flat. Yeah, they're protected. They're
Speaker 1: protected depending on when they got into the house. They're protected.
Speaker 1: And you can obviously transfer that if you're in a
Speaker 1: trust too, which is nice. But if you're not, and
Speaker 1: then you transfer that title from you know, your parents
Speaker 1: name to somebody else, than they immediately immediately get reassessed
Speaker 1: to a new value and they get hit with that
Speaker 1: property tax rate. That trust is the way to go.
Speaker 1: That trust things the way to go. Yeah, it's best fit.
Speaker 1: You can obviously protect everybody that's underneath that that trust.
Speaker 1: At the same time, like God forbid, someone does have
Speaker 1: something bad happened to him. You got it. All in paper,
Speaker 1: and the attorneys just divvy everything up according to the
Speaker 1: trust and that's it. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: a will and a power of attorney and everything else
Speaker 1: that comes into play. Nice to be a trust fund, baby.
Speaker 1: That would be good to be a trust fund baby.
Speaker 1: Man man, But what would you do though? I like,
Speaker 1: you'd have to work, you'd have to do something, especially
Speaker 1: in the pandemic. That's how I'm wired. But it'd be
Speaker 1: nice to not feel the pressure of you have a
Speaker 1: bad show. You're like, I'm losing my job and lose
Speaker 1: my house and you know that whole thing. That'd be
Speaker 1: nice to not have to deal with that. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're under that kind of a risk. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably not. But I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to have, you know, go on vacation.
Speaker 1: It's like, all right, we have money now to go wherever.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't have to you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You feel you feel me? I do. I do. I
Speaker 1: just don't know how you actually spend your money. So
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different from from my my standpoint,
Speaker 1: like what do you spend your money on? It well,
Speaker 1: I'm spending on my mortgage, I spending on my car insurance,
Speaker 1: cell phone, car payment, cell phone, no cable, Internet, no cable,
Speaker 1: we don't have cable. Certainly not spending it on gas anymore.
Speaker 1: What are you getting at there? You're not driving anymore.
Speaker 1: To drive on the weekends, you probably save I would
Speaker 1: imagine you probably save anywhere from two to four dollars
Speaker 1: a month now and gas. Uh yeah, it's probably it
Speaker 1: depends on the price of gas. But I was spending
Speaker 1: because you get what like thirty eight miles to the
Speaker 1: gallon in your car maybe I used to. Now I
Speaker 1: get like thirty three or something, but I used to
Speaker 1: get that. Uh. I you know, I would say I
Speaker 1: would spend like to fifty a month minimum probably on
Speaker 1: gas I have to fill up. Yeah, so yeah, because
Speaker 1: we drive a lot on the weekend. So it's like
Speaker 1: during the week it was like five hundred miles um
Speaker 1: a week, and so it would be getting a tank
Speaker 1: like every filming the tank up every like eight or
Speaker 1: nine days would see you fill it up. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe not that much, and maybe it was like going
Speaker 1: around two hundred not to fifty, but it was a lot,
Speaker 1: and the price of gas is fluctuated, going up and down.
Speaker 1: Especially in California. We pay about a dollar tax on
Speaker 1: every gallon that you purchased, right, adding gas tax, and
Speaker 1: and then an extra ten cents if you use your
Speaker 1: debit or credit card. You know, one thing I would
Speaker 1: like to mention with these stupid propositions. The last election,
Speaker 1: the voters in California voted to get rid of daylight
Speaker 1: savings time. Yes, and nothing's happened with that, So what
Speaker 1: the fuck? What's the point of voting for it if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do it. I don't know. It's extremely frustrating. No,
Speaker 1: because if California got rid of daylight savings time, then
Speaker 1: that the entire like West Coast would be. They'd have
Speaker 1: to do it right, because yes, all of those states
Speaker 1: on the West coast, Arizona doesn't observe daylight second, good
Speaker 1: for them, that's a good job by them, you know.
Speaker 1: And Nevada because of Vegas. Whatever time California is on,
Speaker 1: because they want those l A dollars flowing into Vegas,
Speaker 1: they're not they're gonna keep. At the same time, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna you know, they're gonna model that after after
Speaker 1: the California model. So oh yeah, Nevada and Arizona are
Speaker 1: coming closer and closer to California as we speak. So yeah,
Speaker 1: well there'll be a big earthquake. Everyone will be out
Speaker 1: in the open. Be all right, I get my life preserver,
Speaker 1: I'll be Okay. Were you at least excited for the
Speaker 1: election to take place and see how much of a
Speaker 1: turnout we had? Um, I'm I'm excited. I mean, then
Speaker 1: I guess I only it's gonna change that much. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess if Biden ultimately is the president, I'll have
Speaker 1: to you know, stay stay in more and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll be in lockdown and it'll be a police state
Speaker 1: and all that. But uh, and I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna change that. I mean, it would just be annoying
Speaker 1: on a different different kind of annoying, right, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, So I'm like, I'm not really
Speaker 1: I'm not as worked up as some people are worked
Speaker 1: up into a ladder like I I'd like to think
Speaker 1: Trump is gonna find a way to win, But if
Speaker 1: he doesn't, that's fine, I mean, and that means I
Speaker 1: guess he can run in four right, he can come
Speaker 1: back and be president four years later, and imagine that.
Speaker 1: I'm actually think it's crazy. Now, imagine if he ran
Speaker 1: again four years from now. I wouldn't want him to
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want no, I think, I mean I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want Biden to run anyway if I was
Speaker 1: a a hardcore Democrat. Well, the only problem over the
Speaker 1: age thing, because Trump he's seventy four, seventy eight, and
Speaker 1: that's well how old is Biden? So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's and Biden seems like he's way too old to
Speaker 1: be president. So that would be a problem. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: just want to Trump loses like Biden lost his fastball.
Speaker 1: He's he was a very sharp well you like him
Speaker 1: or not, he was a sharp politician for years. I
Speaker 1: mean he was, he was on his game. He's not anymore.
Speaker 1: He's a shell of what he had been. I guess
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But is Trump gonna be like, is
Speaker 1: he gonna have that same cognitive decline over the next
Speaker 1: four years or is he gonna still You know, some
Speaker 1: people keep their fastball right up until the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very few, but some people do to their last breath.
Speaker 1: Still got their fastball. I was at least excited to
Speaker 1: see the amount of turnout that we we saw across
Speaker 1: across the land, like people actually in person voting, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're talking about think districts and the representatives and the
Speaker 1: and the councilman um, the representatives across the state of
Speaker 1: California everywhere. I mean, it was It's good to see
Speaker 1: that kind of drama. That's really good TV in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Although you ultimately love to have a decision on said
Speaker 1: day as opposed to dragging the shift out, but you know,
Speaker 1: this stuff is gonna go right to the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: and we won't probably get a decision until December. I think. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing I would like to mention though, is I
Speaker 1: did get a kick out of the political pundits is
Speaker 1: the night went later and later and they started bitching
Speaker 1: and complaining because they had to stay up all night.
Speaker 1: And it reminded me of when the trade deadlines would
Speaker 1: be at midnight, and we like Rachel Nichols complained so
Speaker 1: much and a couple other media people in the NBA.
Speaker 1: They used to have the NBA trade deadline. It was
Speaker 1: like midnight Eastern, which was great for us, or the
Speaker 1: free of the start of free agency would be at midnight.
Speaker 1: It was awesome because we'd be on the radio and
Speaker 1: stuff would be trick coming in all night long. We
Speaker 1: get woe Jan Shams, bombs bombing runs in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night. And then you know these elitist like
Speaker 1: Rachel Nichols and these people complained, and so the NBA
Speaker 1: cow towing, get your fine, you know, taking a knee, genuflecting,
Speaker 1: I should say to the to the media, they moved
Speaker 1: it to like the afternoon. Yeah, and the politically, we
Speaker 1: we we should have a deadline. You're new to announce
Speaker 1: the winner for the White House, but you know ten
Speaker 1: o'clock at night or something like that. Well, there's two
Speaker 1: guys like Chris Cuomo for CNN and Bill Hemmer for Fox.
Speaker 1: Those two guys they had I don't know how they felt,
Speaker 1: but they looked like they had a ton of juice
Speaker 1: left in them. Like I went to bed, I think
Speaker 1: the night of the election, went to bed at two AM,
Speaker 1: maybe three. And those guys are still up. Those guys
Speaker 1: are still rocking. And that's on the East Coast. You
Speaker 1: think possibly they might have had some ambient Maybe Hember
Speaker 1: City took a forty five minute nap because they had
Speaker 1: to do a show the next day, and then Cuomo
Speaker 1: the same thing too. Like those guys, those but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give them like a gold star. That's their gig,
Speaker 1: this is their super Yeah. I mean, if you're a
Speaker 1: political pundit like Cuomo and Emmer and these guys, and
Speaker 1: your job is to deal with politics, and this is
Speaker 1: this is what you live for you. I mean, how
Speaker 1: many how many people who are in political media would
Speaker 1: give their left testicle to be on election night anchoring
Speaker 1: election night coverage? Oh yeah, it's it's great, especially because
Speaker 1: if you're on the West Coast and you're in some
Speaker 1: of those battleground states that all all the attention, like
Speaker 1: the microscope is on you. So if you're in Arizona,
Speaker 1: if you're in Nevada, if you're in parts like that,
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, like everything of the Republic
Speaker 1: is now on here. If you're a beat reporter like that,
Speaker 1: more often than I you don't get that kind of coverage,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, once a year or once
Speaker 1: every four years, you did. Yeah, So we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens with the election stuff. I as I told you,
Speaker 1: guess I believe that this will drag on like whoever
Speaker 1: we maybe they've already announced the winner by the time
Speaker 1: we're doing this. I don't know, because we recorded this
Speaker 1: a few days ago. But to me doesn't matter. I give.
Speaker 1: If you know, Trump were to win, the Biden people
Speaker 1: would sue Trump's already suit, so you know that's that's
Speaker 1: already So it's going to be decided by the court system.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know how that all works, because
Speaker 1: you know, what's the chain of command on that, what's
Speaker 1: the the social order? And does it go to a
Speaker 1: Senate vote? Like how do they determine it's supposed to
Speaker 1: be the vote of the people. So it's a very
Speaker 1: convoluted situation. I just I'd like to think they will
Speaker 1: have that decided by the end of the year. I
Speaker 1: just I don't get, for the life of me, how
Speaker 1: I could walk into a polling center and cast my
Speaker 1: vote and all they asked me to do is identify
Speaker 1: my name and my birthday. That's it. Well, you think
Speaker 1: they should like fingerprints or something. Well, I think they
Speaker 1: should at least identify me. You know, you know this,
Speaker 1: we pay up the wazoo for all kinds of bullshit
Speaker 1: in California, and now that includes mostly everyone here in
Speaker 1: the state has to pay for a new identification carter
Speaker 1: driver's license. So if you have a passport, you're safe,
Speaker 1: but they want you to get a new driver's license
Speaker 1: to use that when you fly across the country. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to get a new driver's license yet, So
Speaker 1: you're paying that money. Where does it go? Like why
Speaker 1: can't it be used in situations like this for voter
Speaker 1: identification when you're at the ballot box. Yeah yeah. When
Speaker 1: they make the counter argument it's racial profiling and all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if, I don't know where that comes from,
Speaker 1: but they put it out there, and not everyone has
Speaker 1: an idea. I mean, I got I. I have a
Speaker 1: valid driver's license and I have to carry it with
Speaker 1: me when I drive. I have valid vehicle insurance. I
Speaker 1: have to carry that with me if I drive. If
Speaker 1: I don't have those with me, then I get a ticket.
Speaker 1: I get to fix it ticket. I it fine for that, Like,
Speaker 1: how how does that not? I can't board a plane
Speaker 1: without an identification card? No, listen, I hear you. Um.
Speaker 1: And then other people have said they should streamline the
Speaker 1: election process. But I don't think that's a good night.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a big country. Every states rights. I
Speaker 1: would like to see the states get get off the toilet,
Speaker 1: you know, stop sitting there. Like Florida screwed up their
Speaker 1: election in two thousand and they were the most efficient state.
Speaker 1: They had that thing nailed down Florida very very fast,
Speaker 1: compared to some of these other states which are taken forever.
Speaker 1: So I saw a great tweet you that night. Uh,
Speaker 1: one of these girls that was on Twitter. She said,
Speaker 1: So let me get this straight. Vegas and Nevada have
Speaker 1: no problems with partying and gambling and dancing and doing
Speaker 1: drugs all night and into the morning time. But god forbid,
Speaker 1: you can't count votes into the middle of the night. No.
Speaker 1: I know these people. It's like it's like Cinderella. They
Speaker 1: turned into a pump midnight. They can't do it, cannot work.
Speaker 1: They don't have the all night jeans. They just they're
Speaker 1: not workhorses. They're not. All right, we gotta get to
Speaker 1: a gascon now. But that ends the political portion of
Speaker 1: the podcast. But now that's the third round, my mom,
Speaker 1: that's the third round, alright. So big rig Benny, big
Speaker 1: rig Benny. Another example of the difference between myself and
Speaker 1: David Gascon. So Monday, I had an emergency Mallard meet
Speaker 1: and greet, an emergency Mallard meet and greet. Now, if
Speaker 1: you don't follow me on social media, you probably don't
Speaker 1: know about this. But if you do follow me on
Speaker 1: Facebook or Instagram, chances are you saw photographic evidence. And
Speaker 1: as the late great radio icon. At one point when
Speaker 1: I was early in my career, the most listened to
Speaker 1: person in radio, Paul Harvey would say, Now for the
Speaker 1: rest of the store. So I pressed the flesh with Mallard, Militia,
Speaker 1: bring a dear general, moving man Matt, right out of Boston,
Speaker 1: Right out of Boston, hanging out with moving man Matt.
Speaker 1: So how did this happen? All right, I will walk
Speaker 1: you through. I'm gonna hold your hand, and I'm explained
Speaker 1: to you like you're you're in kindergarten. Alright. So, first
Speaker 1: of all, Matt, who he had informed us, he called
Speaker 1: into the show over the last couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: he said, list I'm on my way to California. He
Speaker 1: stopped off in Colorado. He had he was at the
Speaker 1: restaurant in the snow there where they had the Mallard
Speaker 1: maneuver in outside Danver, about seventy miles outside Denver. So
Speaker 1: he did that. He's stopped and had the full Mallard
Speaker 1: food tour a couple of times. Anyway, so Matt reached
Speaker 1: out on the show and then he emailed me and
Speaker 1: we started playing email ping pong. We went back and forth.
Speaker 1: There maybe email racquetball, however you want to call it. Um.
Speaker 1: So I have a steadfast rule where I called it
Speaker 1: the Doc mic because I cannot give out my number
Speaker 1: to a list Now. A few of the listeners have
Speaker 1: been grandfathered in and have my number from years ago.
Speaker 1: But Doc Mike wounded for everybody. That fiasco with Doc
Speaker 1: Mike when Doc was one of my guys in Chicago
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm going to jail for two years.
Speaker 1: You gotta I gotta be able to get ahold of
Speaker 1: you want to get out. And so of course the
Speaker 1: dummy that I am gave him my number, and I said, Doc,
Speaker 1: listen giving you my number. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: call me until you get out, and then I want
Speaker 1: you to lose my number. Yep, absolutely no problem. You
Speaker 1: can trust me. Guy calls me four days a week,
Speaker 1: four days a week. It's been twenty years since he
Speaker 1: had his little escapades there. So anyway, so back to
Speaker 1: the story. So moving man matt Uh, he sent me
Speaker 1: a couple of dates. He's gonna be in California, in
Speaker 1: southern California, moving people around the country. So he had
Speaker 1: a couple of dates and the one that worked out
Speaker 1: the plan and it's aligning is Andrea the sports sorceress
Speaker 1: would say, was Monday afternoon. So I made the pilgrimage
Speaker 1: out to Ontario, California. Right off the ten Freeway, I
Speaker 1: cruised into a place gascon would never be seen, at
Speaker 1: the Petro truck stop right off I tend there, one
Speaker 1: of the great truck stops in California. And I pulled
Speaker 1: into the parking lot and they had gas ganiall be
Speaker 1: happy to know. They had a Popeye's Chicken, they had
Speaker 1: a Burger King. There was an Iron Skillet, but that
Speaker 1: was closed to a big travel store there and a
Speaker 1: huge as big as you can possibly imagine parking lot
Speaker 1: with nothing but these monster eighteen wheeler trucks. I'm talking hundreds.
Speaker 1: I didn't count, but it seemed like hundreds of these
Speaker 1: trucks just sleeping in the in the parking lot. So
Speaker 1: so anyway, I get in there. And there's two parts
Speaker 1: of this. There's the parking lot where you can park
Speaker 1: like regular cars, and then there's the actual truck parking lot.
Speaker 1: So I was in the mallarmobile, so I parked in
Speaker 1: the regular parking lot. So then I'm like, well, I
Speaker 1: I can't talk to you know, my guy moving man,
Speaker 1: Matt on the phone. So I'm like, all right, so
Speaker 1: I emailed him, got right back to me. I'll come
Speaker 1: see it. So he ran over and uh, he said hello,
Speaker 1: and he had his partner in crime with him, Louis.
Speaker 1: Louis is a ferocious French bulldog. Uh. That is his
Speaker 1: travel companion on the on the road and it's pretty cool,
Speaker 1: says Louise only has to stop, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of times a day to do the poop and
Speaker 1: the school and so anyway, so, uh, Matt came over
Speaker 1: and we we were like hey, whatever, and he's like hey, uh.
Speaker 1: He says, I want you to pull the Mallard maneuver.
Speaker 1: This is the second part of the story. So he says.
Speaker 1: Matt's like, hey, listen, why don't you you go over here,
Speaker 1: We'll do the Mallard maneuver. So I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, okay. Uh So he says, go around out
Speaker 1: of the parking lot you're in and where the normal
Speaker 1: civilians are, and then you make a left and then
Speaker 1: another left, and I want you to go into the
Speaker 1: big rig parking lot. Um. So I'm like, okay, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Whatever, you must know the way
Speaker 1: this works. You your truck driver, you're in the you
Speaker 1: know you're here, You've stopped here before. So so this
Speaker 1: is a metered parking lot. David's me the parking lot.
Speaker 1: The first two hours are free. So I I take
Speaker 1: the Malawabile to the back gate there and I'm just
Speaker 1: to paint you a picture here, a word picture. I'm
Speaker 1: driving a normal car the mallon Wibile. You know, it's
Speaker 1: normal sedan, it's nothing outraged on eighteen wheeler. So as
Speaker 1: I'm pulling around a lot, I am surrounded by these
Speaker 1: giant trucks behind in front of me. I get to
Speaker 1: the gate, I make the left turn. I get to
Speaker 1: the gate at the Petro the truck parking lot. It
Speaker 1: is designed there's you know those those when you go
Speaker 1: into a paid parking lot, the gate comes up and
Speaker 1: comes down. So it's designed for eighteen heelers. So I
Speaker 1: have to I have to stop my car, I have
Speaker 1: to physically get out of the car reach up to
Speaker 1: grab the ticket because it's so high, because it's designed
Speaker 1: for you know, in a truck, you're much higher than
Speaker 1: a car obviously. So so then I had an epiphany
Speaker 1: and I realized that I could simply just cruise under
Speaker 1: the gate without getting touched by the arm bar. That
Speaker 1: that thing was so high to stop trucks from going
Speaker 1: in like like that would actually stop a truck. That
Speaker 1: I could just drive under it and not didn't have
Speaker 1: to get a ticket, but I did. I took a ticket,
Speaker 1: and I cruised around, and Matt told me exactly where
Speaker 1: he was, and so I found I found his rig. Right,
Speaker 1: Moving Man Matt found his rig there, told me where
Speaker 1: to meet him. And then the final thing here the
Speaker 1: main event. So moving Man Matt, he says, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pull the rig away from the trailer that he was
Speaker 1: hauling with all the moving stuff. He said, so I
Speaker 1: could see in person the fur first ever mobile moving
Speaker 1: billboard for the Mallar Militia. Guess Scott. He pulled that
Speaker 1: rig away from that trailer, and it was like seeing
Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa. It was like seeing the Hope diamond.
Speaker 1: It was looking at Michael Angelo painting the ceiling at
Speaker 1: the Sistine champell. Uh. It was goose bumps. It was breathtaking.
Speaker 1: It was extraordinary there it was right in front of
Speaker 1: me in all its glory. I had seen photos of it,
Speaker 1: but here I was face to face, eye to eye,
Speaker 1: belly to belly. With the hashtag Mallard Militia. It was
Speaker 1: a religious like experience. Guests, guy, it was did you
Speaker 1: guys hold hands and cuddle and share a glass of wine?
Speaker 1: You know, we we we might have hugged it out.
Speaker 1: You might might have hugged it out. It was a
Speaker 1: very emotional situation there, as you know, and beautiful. It's
Speaker 1: just beautiful. My God, great job and you'll be happy
Speaker 1: to know that. Uh. As we were chatting, and I've
Speaker 1: met moving man mat before. He came to the Mathern
Speaker 1: Meet and great the great twenty nineteen Boston Meet and
Speaker 1: greet at the Casking Flagging on a cold night across
Speaker 1: from Finway in April of twenty nineteen. We made a
Speaker 1: great time there. It was wonderful. Um. So I've met
Speaker 1: him before and so so that was one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I was willing to meet him again. But he
Speaker 1: did inform me he would like to punch Doc Mike
Speaker 1: in the face because of the number debacle and how
Speaker 1: much more difficult it was to get ahold of me. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he's also not a fan of Gascon how about that?
Speaker 1: Not a fan of Mr West of the four oh five.
Speaker 1: And he wanted a piece of Gascott. He wanted to
Speaker 1: give you the business, is what he wanted. Yeah, how encouraging. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it once you to know, uh, And he didn't.
Speaker 1: He educated me a little bit on the truck the
Speaker 1: trucker lifestyle, he informed me. And I didn't know this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of a lot lizards? A lot lizards? Now, yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't either. I didn't know what he said. He's
Speaker 1: all stay away from the lot lizards or something like that.
Speaker 1: I forget exactly what he said or something like that.
Speaker 1: And so, what are you talking about? And so then
Speaker 1: he told me about this. There's this documentary. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a few years old. I'm actually gonna try to find it.
Speaker 1: It's like four years old, and it is a documentary
Speaker 1: about truck stop sex workers. Yeah, and it's like there's
Speaker 1: three million truck drivers. There's thousands of truck stops throughout
Speaker 1: the United States, and many of them are frequented by
Speaker 1: whorse drivers referred to as lot lizards. And Matt was
Speaker 1: telling me that that I don't want to disparage that
Speaker 1: truck stop, but apparently back in the day, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's still the case, that was a legendary
Speaker 1: spot for a lot lizards to do their business. Apparently
Speaker 1: the truck drivers very open to that. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: very very open to that. And there's the money to
Speaker 1: be made there. You do a Google search on lot lizard,
Speaker 1: the first thing that comes up is what does a
Speaker 1: lot lizard mean? And then it goes what makes a
Speaker 1: good truck stop? That's good, that's good. So and I
Speaker 1: don't want to speak for prostitutes, but I would think
Speaker 1: if you're a prostitute, this is like, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it would be difficult. You're walking the streets
Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to, you know, pull up to your car.
Speaker 1: But if you go to where the customers are right,
Speaker 1: if you're you know, why not, that's very efficient. And
Speaker 1: the best part is is you're not worried about a
Speaker 1: small car, that's true, yes, yes, And and Matt was
Speaker 1: telling me that the you could tell the guys that
Speaker 1: had the lot lizards because they would most of the
Speaker 1: guys would back their truck in so you could see
Speaker 1: inside the rig. But if they parked against the wall,
Speaker 1: that meant they were doing the hanky panky in the
Speaker 1: truck right there because they want anybody to see it.
Speaker 1: So and it was like, I think I would have
Speaker 1: been a pretty good truck driver and maybe that'll be
Speaker 1: my fallback if this whole thing doesn't work out with Radio,
Speaker 1: if they get rid of me. But you know, you
Speaker 1: buy yourself a lot. You know, these guys actually make
Speaker 1: pretty good money. I mean, my guy Matt is hustling.
Speaker 1: He's got a bunch of kids, and he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's supporting the hell out of his family, and he's
Speaker 1: on the road twenty five twenty days out of the month.
Speaker 1: He's home for like ten days at the most, and
Speaker 1: he's back on the road and he's making the cash.
Speaker 1: Though he's probably gonna clear more than I make, uh
Speaker 1: this year driving the truck. So there you go. Guess
Speaker 1: you want to get out of Radio guest and you
Speaker 1: want to make the real money. You be on the
Speaker 1: road all the time. But I got a lot of cash.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of friends that worked down the docks,
Speaker 1: and they make really good money. To all the longshoreman.
Speaker 1: It's hard to get in on that though. Well, I
Speaker 1: actually no right now if they're getting a ton of work,
Speaker 1: even the casuals are getting out. From what I was told,
Speaker 1: five six days a week. There's been because everyone's buying
Speaker 1: stuff online now, they're not buying stuff in stores, and
Speaker 1: so is that wire. Yeah, there's just been a steady
Speaker 1: flow of of containers that have been coming in for
Speaker 1: quite a while. And obviously as we get closer to
Speaker 1: the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's yeah, I'll it'll continue.
Speaker 1: But but we we have a fair amount. We have
Speaker 1: a fair amount of Mallard militia people that work on
Speaker 1: the docks, the longshore. Do you really Yes, yes, we do.
Speaker 1: They call sporadically check in from time to time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty cool. But so I learned about lot
Speaker 1: lizards and that's a great name, by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. That's a lot lizards. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to watch that documentary. I think it's still I think
Speaker 1: it's I gotten Amazon Prime. It is, Yeah, it's on
Speaker 1: It's on Amazon Prime. I see it right now. Back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and sixteen. It was made. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's not that old. No, I think it's depressing or uplifting.
Speaker 1: Probably depressed. I think it's a lot of fun. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's nothing. We had that. What was the
Speaker 1: documentary we watched about the submarine and the Russians? Oh
Speaker 1: that was great that uh yeah that uh that guy
Speaker 1: they I forgot his name. Now I'm having a mental block.
Speaker 1: Oh that was great, the big big guy Miami running.
Speaker 1: That was a good documentary though. It was really good.
Speaker 1: I think so good. I forgot to name him, but
Speaker 1: we we know the gist of it, which is the
Speaker 1: most important thing. Yeah. Yeah, they got a new they
Speaker 1: bought a nuclear sub from Russian helicopters. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: could get whatever they wanted. And yeah that was man.
Speaker 1: What was the name of that? I don't remember. See,
Speaker 1: now it's gonna bother me. Now I'm gonna be annoyed
Speaker 1: by that, and I'm like, what the hell, Well, you
Speaker 1: gotta move on a lot lizards now, Yeah, I'm watched that.
Speaker 1: I can give that a watch him I have times.
Speaker 1: I'm still watching that country music documentary. This is like
Speaker 1: sixteen hours. Man, it's good, but it's like, could you
Speaker 1: can get it down to like four hours? You know?
Speaker 1: Do you need sixteen hours to go into it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You're stuck apparently, I man, I'm still watching it. I'm
Speaker 1: still checking it out. What was the name of that
Speaker 1: Russian sub documentary It was on Netflix too, right, yeah? Um?
Speaker 1: What was that? Yeah? Oh? Operational Deaths. Yes, Operation Odessa.
Speaker 1: There you go, great doctor. If you have not watched
Speaker 1: that opera, it's so good. I forgot the name. It
Speaker 1: was amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, And that they finally caught
Speaker 1: that guy right, Tony, Yeah, that guy Tony, they caught
Speaker 1: him there and he's he's in jail for what how
Speaker 1: long you went to jail for? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: haven't looked that up. But Operation and Odessa wonderful. Gangster's mobster,
Speaker 1: you know, the Russian mob, Cuban spies. You a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything there. And let's say you very well
Speaker 1: made a couple of years old, very well made documentary documentary. Sure,
Speaker 1: all right, so we you want to get to now
Speaker 1: we'll move on from that we have some five round numbers.
Speaker 1: Have a new round numbers here, alright. So now, November
Speaker 1: three was a big day for a number of people
Speaker 1: because of the presidential election national election. Was also a
Speaker 1: big day because of the NFL trade deadline, which sucks
Speaker 1: every year. But it was a big day for me,
Speaker 1: not because of election day. It was a big day
Speaker 1: for me for a couple of reason. It was my
Speaker 1: my late mom's birthday was always a special day, and
Speaker 1: it was also the one year anniversary of me surviving
Speaker 1: my brush with death because of you guesscan emergency gall
Speaker 1: bladder surge three. It happened on November three. November three,
Speaker 1: nineteen was a Sunday, and I had because this is
Speaker 1: a leap year, so you jump ahead of two days.
Speaker 1: But this, uh, this was the anniversary I haven't. I
Speaker 1: had made it three d sixty five days since that
Speaker 1: medical procedure. The most painful surgery you can have is
Speaker 1: your goal bladder being taken out. As verified on the internet,
Speaker 1: you can look it up. I'm not making it up,
Speaker 1: but it's a big deal. Because humans love round numbers.
Speaker 1: We love round numbers. There is something satisfying about round numbers,
Speaker 1: and so three sixty five is a full year, which
Speaker 1: is a round number, and people people love round numbers.
Speaker 1: I love round, round numbers. And so I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: a gift in the mail Gascon you can send my
Speaker 1: way there to celebrate that I survived. I'm a survivor,
Speaker 1: one year without a goal bladder and living my life.
Speaker 1: You know what I'll do in an auditor of your anniversary.
Speaker 1: I'll get me dinner. How about that? And how about that?
Speaker 1: I'll get you you telegraph that one man, that was
Speaker 1: really something I've learned. I've learned throughout the days, months
Speaker 1: and years now that uh, whatever you get as a gift,
Speaker 1: you want to appreciate it. So I'm appreciate it, show
Speaker 1: a gift when I have it, and it'll still be
Speaker 1: a nice gift, you know it will. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not like one of those old school g I
Speaker 1: Joe or Transformer toys that you can keep in your
Speaker 1: box and having I disagree. I believe the the value
Speaker 1: will go up. It has now been in the Mallard fridge.
Speaker 1: That's gonna steak, Beckett, how about this Tomahawks steak? The
Speaker 1: value of that back in twenty nineteen was I'll bet you.
Speaker 1: I could sell that on the internet and somebody would
Speaker 1: die to have it. Yeah, I know somebody would. You can't.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna bet me on that. Of course someone
Speaker 1: would do that. I'm talking about a fan of the show. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know, someone would probably paid double the price for
Speaker 1: that steaks A good idea. I should do that. No, no,
Speaker 1: I mean if you give me half the sure you
Speaker 1: have to eat your money back in the Yeah. Please,
Speaker 1: it's not like it was a twenty dollar steak. Wow,
Speaker 1: look at you ahead thinking it all about you? Well,
Speaker 1: actually thinking it. Actually it wasn't about me. It was
Speaker 1: about you. But not that you've turned it on me.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, why not? Well you brought up the steak.
Speaker 1: I mean, my god, you brought up the gall bladder
Speaker 1: one year anniverarse through. Well that's a big deal. That's
Speaker 1: a it's a podcast about the show, you dummy. What
Speaker 1: do you want me to So now I will present
Speaker 1: this is a fifth Hour exclusive, Fifth Hour exclusive? Uh,
Speaker 1: and here it is Lessons learned one year without a
Speaker 1: gall bladder. All right, you ready for this? I got
Speaker 1: to hey, my life really hasn't changed that much. I
Speaker 1: I read a lot that you know, without your gall bladder.
Speaker 1: All this is gonna happen, but life goes on. It
Speaker 1: hasn't changed that much. That was the first thing. And
Speaker 1: then part B of this I have learned and I
Speaker 1: was as a kid part of this organization on the
Speaker 1: Boy Scouts motto when you don't have your gallbladder, you
Speaker 1: must be prepared. And when I say that, I mean
Speaker 1: prepared because you have to be prepared. Whenever you eat,
Speaker 1: you have to be prepared to go to the bathroom
Speaker 1: within five minutes. You're gonna have the Tennessee Trots. You
Speaker 1: are going to have close to dysentery. Especially with my
Speaker 1: my diet and all that. Um, I don't you know.
Speaker 1: I don't eat for a couple of days and then
Speaker 1: then I'll then I'll eat, and so uh it does
Speaker 1: accelerate the effects. But overall, I would say I've been
Speaker 1: very pleased with the last year, and they've been We've
Speaker 1: had two big f ups where we had the situation
Speaker 1: at work where I did not make it in time
Speaker 1: and ship the pants and I had to do a show,
Speaker 1: which was awkward. And then the famous story from a
Speaker 1: couple of months back when I was walking and I
Speaker 1: couldn't make it to the bathroom. And then I finally
Speaker 1: made it and I tried to squat I made it
Speaker 1: a squatty potty in the uh the commode, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: the toilet and or like what do they call it
Speaker 1: the can in Canada, the powder room. They call the
Speaker 1: can the powder room. And uh, I missed my mark
Speaker 1: there and turned the outhouse into a ship house and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, good times. Fried food is your enemy, right,
Speaker 1: like fried food. Once fried food is still eat fried No,
Speaker 1: I mean, but like once you ingest fried food, you're
Speaker 1: on the clock. It doesn't always work that way. It
Speaker 1: is weird because when I, you know, I eat back
Speaker 1: to back days during the week, you know, I eat
Speaker 1: like in kind of pods, right, so when I eat
Speaker 1: every day, it does not has affect me, It does
Speaker 1: not infect my body as much. But when I don't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the spicier of the fried food, it just kicks my
Speaker 1: intestines ass. It's brutal, very uncomfortable. I'm happy that you've
Speaker 1: lived past that one year thank you anniversary. Not that inconvenient.
Speaker 1: There are worse problems to have. Yeah, it's a bit
Speaker 1: of a nuisance from time to time. But the way
Speaker 1: I look at it, it just it empowers me to
Speaker 1: not eat much because when I eat, I occasionally have
Speaker 1: these issues. So if I don't eat, then I don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about I just drink water. That's good
Speaker 1: and I'm good. So there you go there, alright, So
Speaker 1: why don't we want to save the Sunday Podcast. Will
Speaker 1: do some pop quiz on the Sunday Podcast. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll do that on Sunday. And also we'll have a mailbag.
Speaker 1: We'll have the mailbacks. We have that to look forward to.
Speaker 1: And again, if you have not watched Benny Versus the
Speaker 1: Penny marginal NFL handicapping every game, it's not gonna like
Speaker 1: look as good probably as it should until next week.
Speaker 1: But Benny Versus the Penny, it's up right now. You
Speaker 1: can watch that and look at the analysis on all
Speaker 1: the games that are going to be played on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We hope they're all played. There's a lot of corona
Speaker 1: out in the world, so we'll see if those games
Speaker 1: were all played as schedule. They moved some of them
Speaker 1: to Monday and Tuesday and whatnot. But have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thank you for supporting the podcast and being loyal and
Speaker 1: all that wonderful stuff and again, Tell a friend, Tell
Speaker 1: a friend, tell a friend, and we'll put the baby
Speaker 1: to bed for the fifth hour. Have a wonderful day,
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