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But we do 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.440 thank you in This podcast heard multiple days of the 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.880 week Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on the I Heart podcast network. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.160 And as you know, because you've already found the podcast, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.800 So I'm preaching to the amen choir that this is 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.840 available wherever you get your podcast. And we are joined 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.160 from West of the four oh five. Listen, Mr lat 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:38.280 Da David Gascon. I'm here there. I am a lot 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.720 and proud lot. No no cheering, no applause, none of 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.320 that stuff. You know, things are still in doubt, so 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.800 we need to go into probably the month of December 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:52.040 before we can get that loud, roaring ovation. But no, yeah, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.680 this is really this political stuff is affecting you. I've 0:01:54.760 --> 0:02:00.559 noticed there's you're off your normal annoying guests on routine, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.640 Like do you really troubled by the would you mean 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:10.040 my normal annoying self. I've just I've just noticed this 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.839 week is in our brief interactions. I've noticed you don't 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.800 even know what the funk I do during the week. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.680 Why are you so defensive because you come to be 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.720 like I'm triggered by something like yeah, I just noticed 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.639 that you're a little affected by everything going on. I'm 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.320 not I'm fine. I mean there'll be a president and 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.680 then that my life will not really change much at all. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.720 I don't. I don't believe other than full you didn't 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.320 checking out the prop votes that were bettered against. What's that? 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.160 I voted against every prop but the Uber deal or 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.320 whatever they But as far as the taxes going up, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.760 anything with tax going up, I voted, Yeah, Well, those 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:52.200 actually lost. We're gonna have increase in state taxes. Come come, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.760 hell or high water, look came, and our taxes will 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.600 be right. So the property tax thing went up, I 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.640 think it was Prop fourteen was was green let the 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.839 property tax? I believe it was another one. I did 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.119 see that California rejected um rent control and they did 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:15.840 reject no cash bail. That's it. Well, if the mortgage 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.040 thing went up, this is good because I can finally move. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.880 I can convince my wife you get the hell out 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.600 of here and go to a place where they actually 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.560 respect their citizens and don't gouge them with taxes. So 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.000 that could be a good thing. Is it would be 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.440 a short term pain for the long term gain. Yeah, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.080 but what I mean California is what one and a 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.800 quarter percent of your property value assessed value? Uh? Well, 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.080 I haven't read. I don't know what you're talking. I 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.440 didn't see the guideline that I knew. One of the 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:48.400 props was they would raise the property taxes tremendously. Um 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:49.920 And I don't know if that's the one you're referring 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.200 to or if that is something else. No, No, I've 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.600 just been in general. Are are general state tax for property? 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.320 I think it's one in a quarter percent or at 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.120 least enough. But they had the thing that was, you know, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.119 my father, because they bought the house a long time ago, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.440 their property taxes have stayed flat. Yeah, they're protected. They're 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.040 protected depending on when they got into the house. They're protected. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.479 And you can obviously transfer that if you're in a 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.760 trust too, which is nice. But if you're not, and 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.880 then you transfer that title from you know, your parents 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.719 name to somebody else, than they immediately immediately get reassessed 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.839 to a new value and they get hit with that 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.560 property tax rate. That trust is the way to go. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.160 That trust things the way to go. Yeah, it's best fit. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.440 You can obviously protect everybody that's underneath that that trust. 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.039 At the same time, like God forbid, someone does have 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.000 something bad happened to him. You got it. All in paper, 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.680 and the attorneys just divvy everything up according to the 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.280 trust and that's it. You don't have to worry about 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.200 a will and a power of attorney and everything else 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.960 that comes into play. Nice to be a trust fund, baby. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:52.919 That would be good to be a trust fund baby. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.240 Man man, But what would you do though? I like, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.960 you'd have to work, you'd have to do something, especially 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:03.120 in the pandemic. That's how I'm wired. But it'd be 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.960 nice to not feel the pressure of you have a 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.920 bad show. You're like, I'm losing my job and lose 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:09.760 my house and you know that whole thing. That'd be 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.880 nice to not have to deal with that. I don't 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.200 think you're under that kind of a risk. No, I don't. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.040 I don't know, probably not. But I'm just saying, like, 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.239 it'd be nice to have, you know, go on vacation. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.520 It's like, all right, we have money now to go wherever. 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.080 You know, we don't have to you know what I'm saying. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.360 You feel you feel me? I do. I do. I 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.640 just don't know how you actually spend your money. So 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.600 it's a little bit different from from my my standpoint, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.520 like what do you spend your money on? It well, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.880 I'm spending on my mortgage, I spending on my car insurance, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:44.400 cell phone, car payment, cell phone, no cable, Internet, no cable, 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.080 we don't have cable. Certainly not spending it on gas anymore. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.239 What are you getting at there? You're not driving anymore. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.520 To drive on the weekends, you probably save I would 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.600 imagine you probably save anywhere from two to four dollars 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:05.000 a month now and gas. Uh yeah, it's probably it 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.960 depends on the price of gas. But I was spending 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.320 because you get what like thirty eight miles to the 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.240 gallon in your car maybe I used to. Now I 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.360 get like thirty three or something, but I used to 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.840 get that. Uh. I you know, I would say I 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.800 would spend like to fifty a month minimum probably on 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:28.920 gas I have to fill up. Yeah, so yeah, because 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:30.640 we drive a lot on the weekend. So it's like 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.800 during the week it was like five hundred miles um 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.640 a week, and so it would be getting a tank 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.360 like every filming the tank up every like eight or 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.400 nine days would see you fill it up. Like yeah, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.080 maybe not that much, and maybe it was like going 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.480 around two hundred not to fifty, but it was a lot, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.520 and the price of gas is fluctuated, going up and down. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.240 Especially in California. We pay about a dollar tax on 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.760 every gallon that you purchased, right, adding gas tax, and 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.440 and then an extra ten cents if you use your 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.040 debit or credit card. You know, one thing I would 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.719 like to mention with these stupid propositions. The last election, 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.240 the voters in California voted to get rid of daylight 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:13.080 savings time. Yes, and nothing's happened with that, So what 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.400 the fuck? What's the point of voting for it if 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.280 you're not gonna do it. I don't know. It's extremely frustrating. No, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.000 because if California got rid of daylight savings time, then 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:26.080 that the entire like West Coast would be. They'd have 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.880 to do it right, because yes, all of those states 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.240 on the West coast, Arizona doesn't observe daylight second, good 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.680 for them, that's a good job by them, you know. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.160 And Nevada because of Vegas. Whatever time California is on, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.840 because they want those l A dollars flowing into Vegas, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.520 they're not they're gonna keep. At the same time, they're 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.800 not gonna you know, they're gonna model that after after 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.800 the California model. So oh yeah, Nevada and Arizona are 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.000 coming closer and closer to California as we speak. So yeah, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 well there'll be a big earthquake. Everyone will be out 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.800 in the open. Be all right, I get my life preserver, 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.200 I'll be Okay. Were you at least excited for the 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.200 election to take place and see how much of a 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:11.560 turnout we had? Um, I'm I'm excited. I mean, then 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.760 I guess I only it's gonna change that much. I mean, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.240 I guess if Biden ultimately is the president, I'll have 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.000 to you know, stay stay in more and uh, you know, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.720 I'll be in lockdown and it'll be a police state 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.000 and all that. But uh, and I don't think he's 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.400 gonna change that. I mean, it would just be annoying 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.040 on a different different kind of annoying, right, you know 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.800 what I'm saying. Like, So I'm like, I'm not really 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.920 I'm not as worked up as some people are worked 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.400 up into a ladder like I I'd like to think 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.240 Trump is gonna find a way to win, But if 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.720 he doesn't, that's fine, I mean, and that means I 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.079 guess he can run in four right, he can come 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.800 back and be president four years later, and imagine that. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:50.880 I'm actually think it's crazy. Now, imagine if he ran 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.600 again four years from now. I wouldn't want him to 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.800 I wouldn't want no, I think, I mean I wouldn't. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.719 I wouldn't want Biden to run anyway if I was 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.079 a a hardcore Democrat. Well, the only problem over the 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:08.600 age thing, because Trump he's seventy four, seventy eight, and 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.400 that's well how old is Biden? So yeah, I mean 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.320 that's and Biden seems like he's way too old to 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.719 be president. So that would be a problem. Yeah, you 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.240 just want to Trump loses like Biden lost his fastball. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.960 He's he was a very sharp well you like him 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.240 or not, he was a sharp politician for years. I 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.760 mean he was, he was on his game. He's not anymore. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.400 He's a shell of what he had been. I guess 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:34.040 it doesn't matter. But is Trump gonna be like, is 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.120 he gonna have that same cognitive decline over the next 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.199 four years or is he gonna still You know, some 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.640 people keep their fastball right up until the end. Yeah, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.760 very few, but some people do to their last breath. 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.680 Still got their fastball. I was at least excited to 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.080 see the amount of turnout that we we saw across 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:59.240 across the land, like people actually in person voting, and yeah, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.960 you're talking about think districts and the representatives and the 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:06.560 and the councilman um, the representatives across the state of 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.720 California everywhere. I mean, it was It's good to see 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.680 that kind of drama. That's really good TV in my opinion. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.920 Although you ultimately love to have a decision on said 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.559 day as opposed to dragging the shift out, but you know, 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.760 this stuff is gonna go right to the Supreme Court 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.120 and we won't probably get a decision until December. I think. Well, 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.160 one thing I would like to mention though, is I 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.280 did get a kick out of the political pundits is 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.880 the night went later and later and they started bitching 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.040 and complaining because they had to stay up all night. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.120 And it reminded me of when the trade deadlines would 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.760 be at midnight, and we like Rachel Nichols complained so 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.800 much and a couple other media people in the NBA. 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.400 They used to have the NBA trade deadline. It was 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.640 like midnight Eastern, which was great for us, or the 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.040 free of the start of free agency would be at midnight. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.240 It was awesome because we'd be on the radio and 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.560 stuff would be trick coming in all night long. We 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:05.000 get woe Jan Shams, bombs bombing runs in the middle 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.000 of the night. And then you know these elitist like 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.520 Rachel Nichols and these people complained, and so the NBA 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.439 cow towing, get your fine, you know, taking a knee, genuflecting, 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.560 I should say to the to the media, they moved 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:20.079 it to like the afternoon. Yeah, and the politically, we 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.880 we we should have a deadline. You're new to announce 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.079 the winner for the White House, but you know ten 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.560 o'clock at night or something like that. Well, there's two 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.720 guys like Chris Cuomo for CNN and Bill Hemmer for Fox. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.000 Those two guys they had I don't know how they felt, 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.440 but they looked like they had a ton of juice 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.959 left in them. Like I went to bed, I think 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.240 the night of the election, went to bed at two AM, 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.120 maybe three. And those guys are still up. Those guys 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.840 are still rocking. And that's on the East Coast. You 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.800 think possibly they might have had some ambient Maybe Hember 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.280 City took a forty five minute nap because they had 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.679 to do a show the next day, and then Cuomo 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.160 the same thing too. Like those guys, those but I'm 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.960 not gonna give them like a gold star. That's their gig, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.040 this is their super Yeah. I mean, if you're a 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.520 political pundit like Cuomo and Emmer and these guys, and 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.480 your job is to deal with politics, and this is 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:12.800 this is what you live for you. I mean, how 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.319 many how many people who are in political media would 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.640 give their left testicle to be on election night anchoring 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.120 election night coverage? Oh yeah, it's it's great, especially because 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.200 if you're on the West Coast and you're in some 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:30.080 of those battleground states that all all the attention, like 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.319 the microscope is on you. So if you're in Arizona, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.160 if you're in Nevada, if you're in parts like that, 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.079 then all of a sudden, like everything of the Republic 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.400 is now on here. If you're a beat reporter like that, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.080 more often than I you don't get that kind of coverage, 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.120 and all of a sudden, once a year or once 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.320 every four years, you did. Yeah, So we'll see what 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.880 happens with the election stuff. I as I told you, 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:59.560 guess I believe that this will drag on like whoever 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.880 we maybe they've already announced the winner by the time 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.200 we're doing this. I don't know, because we recorded this 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.559 a few days ago. But to me doesn't matter. I give. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.280 If you know, Trump were to win, the Biden people 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.920 would sue Trump's already suit, so you know that's that's 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.560 already So it's going to be decided by the court system. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.960 And I don't even know how that all works, because 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.280 you know, what's the chain of command on that, what's 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.439 the the social order? And does it go to a 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.719 Senate vote? Like how do they determine it's supposed to 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.200 be the vote of the people. So it's a very 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.280 convoluted situation. I just I'd like to think they will 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:41.760 have that decided by the end of the year. I 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.319 just I don't get, for the life of me, how 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:50.920 I could walk into a polling center and cast my 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.559 vote and all they asked me to do is identify 0:13:54.760 --> 0:14:01.040 my name and my birthday. That's it. Well, you think 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:02.800 they should like fingerprints or something. Well, I think they 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.120 should at least identify me. You know, you know this, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.120 we pay up the wazoo for all kinds of bullshit 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.720 in California, and now that includes mostly everyone here in 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.480 the state has to pay for a new identification carter 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.280 driver's license. So if you have a passport, you're safe, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.320 but they want you to get a new driver's license 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.960 to use that when you fly across the country. Oh yeah, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.880 I had to get a new driver's license yet, So 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.600 you're paying that money. Where does it go? Like why 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.960 can't it be used in situations like this for voter 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:37.720 identification when you're at the ballot box. Yeah yeah. When 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.920 they make the counter argument it's racial profiling and all. Yeah, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:43.320 I don't know if, I don't know where that comes from, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.200 but they put it out there, and not everyone has 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.640 an idea. I mean, I got I. I have a 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.720 valid driver's license and I have to carry it with 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:54.000 me when I drive. I have valid vehicle insurance. I 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.080 have to carry that with me if I drive. If 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.840 I don't have those with me, then I get a ticket. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.640 I get to fix it ticket. I it fine for that, Like, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.000 how how does that not? I can't board a plane 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:11.320 without an identification card? No, listen, I hear you. Um. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.960 And then other people have said they should streamline the 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.000 election process. But I don't think that's a good night. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.720 It's a it's a big country. Every states rights. I 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.480 would like to see the states get get off the toilet, 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.120 you know, stop sitting there. Like Florida screwed up their 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:29.160 election in two thousand and they were the most efficient state. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:35.080 They had that thing nailed down Florida very very fast, 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.200 compared to some of these other states which are taken forever. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.440 So I saw a great tweet you that night. Uh, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:41.920 one of these girls that was on Twitter. She said, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.120 So let me get this straight. Vegas and Nevada have 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.160 no problems with partying and gambling and dancing and doing 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.680 drugs all night and into the morning time. But god forbid, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.640 you can't count votes into the middle of the night. No. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.200 I know these people. It's like it's like Cinderella. They 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.760 turned into a pump midnight. They can't do it, cannot work. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.960 They don't have the all night jeans. They just they're 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.960 not workhorses. They're not. All right, we gotta get to 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 a gascon now. But that ends the political portion of 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.560 the podcast. But now that's the third round, my mom, 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:18.479 that's the third round, alright. So big rig Benny, big 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.040 rig Benny. Another example of the difference between myself and 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:29.840 David Gascon. So Monday, I had an emergency Mallard meet 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.800 and greet, an emergency Mallard meet and greet. Now, if 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.200 you don't follow me on social media, you probably don't 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.600 know about this. But if you do follow me on 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:42.760 Facebook or Instagram, chances are you saw photographic evidence. And 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.800 as the late great radio icon. At one point when 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.760 I was early in my career, the most listened to 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.560 person in radio, Paul Harvey would say, Now for the 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:59.520 rest of the store. So I pressed the flesh with Mallard, Militia, 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.879 bring a dear general, moving man Matt, right out of Boston, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.640 Right out of Boston, hanging out with moving man Matt. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.399 So how did this happen? All right, I will walk 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.439 you through. I'm gonna hold your hand, and I'm explained 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.160 to you like you're you're in kindergarten. Alright. So, first 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.440 of all, Matt, who he had informed us, he called 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.720 into the show over the last couple of weeks and 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.800 he said, list I'm on my way to California. He 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.480 stopped off in Colorado. He had he was at the 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.520 restaurant in the snow there where they had the Mallard 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:37.600 maneuver in outside Danver, about seventy miles outside Denver. So 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.200 he did that. He's stopped and had the full Mallard 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.720 food tour a couple of times. Anyway, so Matt reached 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.239 out on the show and then he emailed me and 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.119 we started playing email ping pong. We went back and forth. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.560 There maybe email racquetball, however you want to call it. Um. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.879 So I have a steadfast rule where I called it 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:03.320 the Doc mic because I cannot give out my number 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.639 to a list Now. A few of the listeners have 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.240 been grandfathered in and have my number from years ago. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.880 But Doc Mike wounded for everybody. That fiasco with Doc 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.760 Mike when Doc was one of my guys in Chicago 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.879 and he said, I'm going to jail for two years. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:20.960 You gotta I gotta be able to get ahold of 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.679 you want to get out. And so of course the 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.600 dummy that I am gave him my number, and I said, Doc, 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:29.040 listen giving you my number. I don't want you to 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.000 call me until you get out, and then I want 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.199 you to lose my number. Yep, absolutely no problem. You 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.000 can trust me. Guy calls me four days a week, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:42.200 four days a week. It's been twenty years since he 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.639 had his little escapades there. So anyway, so back to 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.800 the story. So moving man matt Uh, he sent me 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.840 a couple of dates. He's gonna be in California, in 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:54.480 southern California, moving people around the country. So he had 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.680 a couple of dates and the one that worked out 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.280 the plan and it's aligning is Andrea the sports sorceress 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:08.880 would say, was Monday afternoon. So I made the pilgrimage 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:14.879 out to Ontario, California. Right off the ten Freeway, I 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.640 cruised into a place gascon would never be seen, at 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.720 the Petro truck stop right off I tend there, one 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.600 of the great truck stops in California. And I pulled 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:27.960 into the parking lot and they had gas ganiall be 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.239 happy to know. They had a Popeye's Chicken, they had 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.439 a Burger King. There was an Iron Skillet, but that 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.520 was closed to a big travel store there and a 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.040 huge as big as you can possibly imagine parking lot 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:47.560 with nothing but these monster eighteen wheeler trucks. I'm talking hundreds. 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.760 I didn't count, but it seemed like hundreds of these 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:55.639 trucks just sleeping in the in the parking lot. So 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.560 so anyway, I get in there. And there's two parts 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.680 of this. There's the parking lot where you can park 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.320 like regular cars, and then there's the actual truck parking lot. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.119 So I was in the mallarmobile, so I parked in 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:06.920 the regular parking lot. So then I'm like, well, I 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.560 I can't talk to you know, my guy moving man, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.960 Matt on the phone. So I'm like, all right, so 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.280 I emailed him, got right back to me. I'll come 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.240 see it. So he ran over and uh, he said hello, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.399 and he had his partner in crime with him, Louis. 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.960 Louis is a ferocious French bulldog. Uh. That is his 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:31.520 travel companion on the on the road and it's pretty cool, 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.080 says Louise only has to stop, like, you know, a 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.119 couple of times a day to do the poop and 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.440 the school and so anyway, so, uh, Matt came over 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.880 and we we were like hey, whatever, and he's like hey, uh. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.679 He says, I want you to pull the Mallard maneuver. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.240 This is the second part of the story. So he says. 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.680 Matt's like, hey, listen, why don't you you go over here, 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.040 We'll do the Mallard maneuver. So I was like, I 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.800 don't know, okay. Uh So he says, go around out 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.400 of the parking lot you're in and where the normal 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:04.800 civilians are, and then you make a left and then 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:06.639 another left, and I want you to go into the 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:10.879 big rig parking lot. Um. So I'm like, okay, you 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.520 know what I mean. Whatever, you must know the way 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.879 this works. You your truck driver, you're in the you 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.560 know you're here, You've stopped here before. So so this 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.720 is a metered parking lot. David's me the parking lot. 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:27.200 The first two hours are free. So I I take 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:30.159 the Malawabile to the back gate there and I'm just 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:34.040 to paint you a picture here, a word picture. I'm 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:37.000 driving a normal car the mallon Wibile. You know, it's 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.920