WEBVTT - Plastic Waste 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:05.880 Kaboom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.600 week was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.880 of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.880 treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.600 rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.480 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:32.559 Maller starts right now, evangelizing on the weekend. It is 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:39.280 another edition of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller, because hey, 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.400 why not what else you got going on? We thank 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.800 you for listening to the weekend addition, the spinoff of 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:50.680 the radio program here eight days a week, eight days 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:55.080 a week, as we spread the gospel, delivering you know, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.880 small sermons, not the full Maller monologue, not the full 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.600 Malla monologue, as we welcome you in and and we 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.400 do sermonize, and we shouted from the bully pulpit. We 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.040 shouted from the bully pulpit. Uh. And I'm excited because 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:12.679 the Mallard the militia have really responded well to the 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:18.160 Saturday podcast, which has become the life of Mallard. It's 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.960 become the life of Molly. And I don't spend too 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:25.160 much time bullshitting about my my life behind the microphone. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.920 I pretty much stick to the to the basics. But 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.520 on Saturday, I can tell you some things that that 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.319 I'm doing behind the scenes, and so we'll do some 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.760 more of that and joined now by popular demand, this 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:38.959 guy said this, I gotta I gotta be in there. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.800 Well more importantly, the other guy said, I can't be there. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.520 Welcome in the number one card carrying I hate Boston. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:54.080 Man in Fox Sports Radio, Ryan McBain, Boston, Yes, can 0:01:54.160 --> 0:02:00.320 kiss my ass. Yes, you're You've not missed a piece. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:04.360 So Nick, were you shocked that that Gagon was actually 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:05.920 in for a couple of weeks in a row that 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.240 you were not called in out of the bullpen where 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.440 you've blown away by that fact? Uh? Yeah? And then 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.399 all of a sudden, hey, hey, man, can you cover 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.600 for me? And I said yes, I use some choice words, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:24.400 but yes, I said, yes, gag On, I'll help you out. Yea, yeah, yeah, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.040 yeah yeah. And and people people wonder, They're like, why 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:29.800 why do you why do you give gag On such 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.320 a hard times. Listen, McBain, You've got ambition, right, You've 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.000 got you want to you want to do this. You 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.720 want to do the podcast, You're willing to do it, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.079 Not that you necessarily want to do it, but you 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.560 you are willing when management asked you to do it, right, 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.440 you're like, Okay, you know you have aspirations, You've got 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.720 you got fire in your belly, right, you admit that 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.399 you have. It's a purpose when you come in here. Yes, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.440 it's fun. Yes, I love talking sports and getting angry. Absolutely, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.919 you like to press the buttons of the mallar militia. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:03.920 Some people, I've been getting some some some tweets about 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.600 my attitude towards Boston, and I love it and I'm 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.880 gonna keep on doing it. And that's all I gotta 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.360 say about that. Well, well it's not just Boston. I 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.720 believe it is the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. And did 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:20.760 you hate other New England states like Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.960 New Hampshire? Do you Maine? Do you also have a 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:29.079 distaste for those teams or those those teams those states? Y? 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.960 Fuck them all? Fuck them all. They could be the 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:40.160 title of the podcast, fuck them all. Right there, I'm 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.360 gonna get a phone called them all for that one. Yeah, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.840 my May and you can't be doing that my min anyway. Alright, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:52.160 So on this Saturday podcast, we've got the old world 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:59.320 Cure Drastic, plastic and contractor Benny and then whatever else 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.520 pops up. Whatever else pops up will do that as well. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.600 So well again into it. I'm sure Ryan has some 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.480 stories from his life that he will share about not 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.440 being able to sleep, and uh, you know you were 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.240 yapping about that, and and I love the fact that 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.599 people can't sleep because that helps people like me out. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.839 If everyone slept at a normal time and did not 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.920 have sleep issues, then I would have no one listening 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.200 live to the radio show. So I'm very grateful that 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.640 whoever created humans or whatever, you know, if you think 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.479 they were created or whether they just developed the way 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.560 they did, and that that people just have issues sleeping. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:43.520 Do you think cockroaches have problems sleeping? Or bears or 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.720 bats or elephants or you know, I just I think 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.920 of the animal kingdom? Are they is it the same? 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.520 Are there like certain rhinos out in the you know, 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.360 in the in the wild that just can't sleep? And 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.680 did the other rhinos look down upon them? And so 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.680 what can at your sleep? But about you? I just 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.479 I'm curious about these things. I'm more curious as to 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.160 why you're saying that. You basically get paid off of 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.000 other people suffering they can't sleep, so it helps you out. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.640 That's basically well yeah, well no, it is the hours 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.040 that I have. If I was doing a big daytime show, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.400 like if I'm like, I'm trying to think like Cowherd 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.440 or Gottlie one of those guys, then I wouldn't need 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.760 people to have bad sleep schedules. But I without the 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:33.000 nocturnal list, I got nothing. I got. I need things 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.520 that go bump in the night because those things that 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.880 go bump in the night that wake people up, then 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.000 they end up listening because they can't go back to 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:47.520 sleep without bad dreams. You know, the the Boogeyman. I 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.920 don't know what everyone described. Then it wouldn't have much. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:57.160 But you're already a multimillionaire, ben you are you are? 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:02.800 That's that's the that's a lie I am. I am 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.880 in debts. The bank owns a lot of what I 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.040 claim to own, but the bank actually owns a lot 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.960 of that. So uh, As I I point out to people, 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.040 you know, friends that want to buy a house, my advice, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.960 I have a boilerplate response when I said said, oh, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.320 I don't know if I want to buy a house. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.040 You know, I don't want to be a homeowner. And 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.680 I always point out to people said, listen, I only 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.560 bought at home. I was pretty old when I got 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.240 into the home game because I didn't have any money. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.320 But when I got a house, I don't really own 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.880 the house because the only way you own the house 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.800 is if the house is paid off. So really, what 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:41.080 you're doing instead of paying a landlord, you're paying the bank, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.240 which is the landlord. And you know you own the 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.440 house as long as you keep paying off the house. 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.880 You're paying your mortgage every month. And if you don't 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.359 pay your mortgage, you don't own the house anymore. The 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.240 house will be reclaimed by the bank. And then even 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.400 the great thing way well, way the life works is 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.680 even when you pay off the bank, then you have 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.320 this and called property taxes. Would you have anyway, But 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.120 if you don't pay your property taxes, then they'll put 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.120 like a lean on your house and so you'll lose 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.039 your house that way, So you always end up having 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.720 to pay someone. That's my life, My life life lesson, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:18.080 Ryan McBain is that you always have to pay someone. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.640 You're saying all this probably in some big gas mansion 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:26.400 three stories. Okay, it's not. No, I am sitting here 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.280 and I'll get into it as we go through the 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.440 fifth Hour podcast today. But I'm sitting in a house 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.760 that is only partially done, only partially and partially done, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.480 and I had to move in. Though I had to 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.360 move in, there's still contractors right now behind the wall. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.600 They're working. Fortunately you can't hear them as much, but 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.360 they're doing some work right now. And uh, and I've 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.960 been sleeping on an air mattress for the last like 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.640 week to ten days. I've been sleeping on an air 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.960 match So have they been working on the third floor yet, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.520 or how's that working? No, there working on the sixth floor. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.800 And they're trying to say they're trying to fix the elevator. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.400 Right now. I have to walk up to the sixth floor. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:12.080 So it's a problem. It's a pain. But yes, yes, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.320 uh and uh. I have a chauffeur uh named Bentley. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.160 That's my show for Bentley the Chauffeurs. So it's it's 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.800 very nice. It's very nice. Uh. So let me get 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.000 to the old world cure. So this pop back up 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.280 on my radar, and I am now going to give advice. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.520 Now before I give this story, you should never I'm 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.000 going to give you advice, but you should never take 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.959 advice from a podcast or an overnight radio person because 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.040 it will just turn out to be a fiasco, just 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.520 a total debacle. So you should not take the advice. 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.600 But I will give the advice you should. You can 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.760 give advice, you don't have to take the advice. So 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.200 last weekend was a rather long one. Moving sucks. We 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.120 we all complained about that. I don't need to go 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.720 down that road. I think every man, woman, and child agrees. 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.880 Moving sucks. It's a hand in the ass um And 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.880 so last weekend I was away from my post at 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.600 Fox Sports Radio because it was the weekend. I don't 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.520 work on the weekend other than like Sunday night. So 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:16.480 my my wife was battling a cold and because of work, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.360 you know, she she had to take a COVID test 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.240 to make sure she didn't have the COVID. And so 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.480 we we went to one of those driving COVID test 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.640 places because of course she had the COVID. I probably 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.599 had the COVID. So test came back negative. Great. She 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.160 didn't have the COVID, but she felt like shit. And 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.200 she had been sick for several days. And I thought 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.400 nothing of it because I was like, well, that's her. 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:42.280 I'm fine, that's she's sick. But then last Saturday, I 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.480 started feeling a little under the weather. You know that 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.400 feeling again when you you kind of know you're starting 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.120 to get sick. There's something in your throat, something your 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.600 nose a little bit. Yeah, And so I felt that 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.080 and I was like, oh, fuck, you know, I kick 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.000 it sick. I just took time off last week to move. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.480 I took a few nights off. I can't get sick people, 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.080 you know, I need to work. And I felt it 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:08.480 coming on. I felt the sniffles, and I felt the little, 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.000 you know, it's kind of twitch in my throat. I 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.480 was like, oh crap. So we were we were dinner 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.679 and uh and on on the way back to to 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.240 the house, we made an emergency run to get medical attention. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.839 And what I did was I used the Mallard maneuver. Ryan. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.640 I stopped by the local grocery store on the way home, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.800 and I stormed in. I went as fast as I could, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.160 and I went to the vegetable area there where they 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.920 had all the nice vegetables. And I immediately grabbed a 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.880 head of garlic. And I then ran back to the 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.160 cash here to pay as quickly as I could, frantically 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.079 paying for the for the garlic. Yes, And so then 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.200 I I went in the car. I opened up the 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.560 head of garlic. I took a clove of garlic off, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:04.560 and I sliced it in half. And that was my medicine. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.040 I started sucking the garlic, the raw garlic, like a 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:12.840 hard candy. What's wrong with you? What are you fighting? Vampires? 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:17.560 Hold on a second, all right, So I did this 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.120 as long as I could. You know, garlic is pretty pungent. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.880 It'll burn your burn your mouth after a while, raw garlic. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.320 If I did this as long as I could, and 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.360 I did it again before I went to sleep, and 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:37.080 the next day, hand to god, I woke up felt fine. No, no, no, 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.880 it's not. Garlic is a natural antibiotic. In fact, in 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:45.440 the I say it's the old world cure. But before 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.920 modern medicine, people treated a lot of illnesses with garlic. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.160 It doesn't. I'm not making it up. I'm telling you 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.280 can read about it online. And I learned about this 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.440 years ago from an old DJ that that told me this, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.640 this garlic check, which was really when I first learned 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.080 about it. Ryan. It was for laryngitis, which is the 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.520 only thing that can really knock you out of broadcasting 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.439 if you're a radio guy or girl, is laryngitis, because otherwise, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.040 you know, you can find, you feel bad, you can 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.120 still talk um. And so this guy's like, hey, yeah, 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:21.520 I had an issue with with laryngitis. And he said, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.040 here's what you do. He says, you take a clove 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.720 of garlic and you slice it in half and you 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.960 suck it like a jolly Roger hard candy before bed, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.440 and all those garlic juices, the natural antibiotic powers of 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.800 garlic will go in through your throat and will attack 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.800 the infection that is developed in your throat. And you 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.319 do this right before you get bad, and it will 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.920 work while you're sleeping, and you do it for a 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.960 couple of days and you'll end up your your voice 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.559 will come right back. And I was like, I was desperate, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.319 as like I needed to do something because I I've 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:00.920 always been right, I don't want to miss a lot 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.960 of work, and I love radio and I don't miss it. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.320 And so I did it, and I thought, well, this 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.400 is probably bullshit. You know, this is not you know, 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.880 this is bullshoy. This ain't gonna work. And it fucking worked, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.120 and I couldn't believe it. And I'm like, this is crazy. 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.760 And I've done it. Every time I've had a voice issue, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.400 I've done it. And then I learned from somebody else 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.120 that you can do it when you're about when you're 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.080 starting to feel sick. But the key to that is 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.199 you have to and this is really painful. Um, and again, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.319 you should not take this advice. This is terrible advice. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.200 You should not take advice from me at all. But 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.160 what I did was on an empty stomach. They said, 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.480 when you start and you're feeling a cold coming on, 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.040 like an empty stomach. I didn't do it this time 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.680 because I had I had a dinner before. But you 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.640 on an empty stomach, you you eat, uh, you kind 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.320 of slice it up thin, and you eat a clove 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.640 of garlic and then that sits in your stomach on 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.120 an empty stomach, and that helps the antibiotic powers of 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.600 garlic will help fight whatever is in your What do 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.760 you laugh forgive me or what you could do is 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.400 get some warm water mixing, mix in some kay and 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.160 pepper and then gargle that for fifteen minutes and you'll 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.080 probably get the same results. It was very very powerful. 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.520 Well that's powerful too. That is probably no no, that 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.880 you're you're not wronging that. And there is another there's 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:24.120 another potion that somebody told me about that involves gargling whiskey. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.320 I think not not whiskey. What is it vodka? Trying 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.960 to think of the right coming. It's some alcohol with cayenne, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.360 pepper and a couple of other things and you gargle 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.040 that and that'll have if you have laryngitis. That will 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:39.440 also help with the laryngit. But but the garlic stuff, 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.640 I am to the day I die. I am a 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.120 cult is the power of garlic. I love it. It 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.239 is wonderful and I don't have to worry about vampires 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.520 or anything like that. And I'm good to go. I 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.640 told you about this, By the way, it was an 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:58.160 old DJ. When was worked, was that it was DJ 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.000 van helsing or it now. I was a DJ kiss 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.840 FM back in the old days when I started in 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:11.320 a radio. Vampire hunter. Yeah, no, I'm telling you it worked. 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:16.320 It works for me. I'll bet you listen, make a 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.960 deal with you. Next time you're feeling like you're gonna 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.000 get sick, Ryan, remember this conversation. And it's the great 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:27.640 thing is it's cheap. It's like the conspiracy that now 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.120 I'm not saying you should avoid doctors, said, obviously go 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:31.960 to doctors. When I'm really fucked up, I'll go to 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.520 doctors and I'll get medical attention. I think medicine is great, 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.760 but like, you could save a lot of money. Right 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.560 if garlic can cure a lot of the basic stuff, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.400 you don't have to go to the doctor and get 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.520 real antibiotics. You can just get nature's antibiotic. Wouldn't that 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.480 be the way to go. That's why I used can peppery. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.760 So for you, your garlic is kim yes, yes, okay, 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.080 oh good, No, I'm glad I've used a little kayen pepper. 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.320 I I love it. There's like a cayenne pepper cinnamon 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.720 type mix that I think I have to I have 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.520 to look it up. I have to look it up. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.920 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.480 Show week days at two am Eastern Pacific. All right, 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.720 now I'm moving on we pivot away from that. We 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.160 have drastic plastic in the life of Mallard as. You 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.120 can only get here because no one else wants this 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.800 content other than the Fifth Hour podcast. So uh as 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.800 you know, being a talk show host, you have to 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.720 be bombastic. We like to dabble in sarcasm late nights, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.640 and but I do have a softer size, softer side. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.360 I do have a softer side, a very frugal side. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.200 I'm I'm Penny pinching tight wad um and and so 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.600 if you follow me on the Graham or Facebook, I 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.600 don't post a lot. I don't post. My my wife 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.680 posts a lot more stuff than I do. I'm pretty 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.160 pretty mellow on that. But the company wants me to 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.320 post from time to time about my life. They asked 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.760 me to the social media guys are like, hey, can 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.440 you can you post stuff so people can see you 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.400 content on the weekends. I'm like, okay, I'll do it. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:03.680 You know, I don't have a lot going on. I 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.320 don't do it that much, but I'll post some photos 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.200 randomly and last weekend, this is actually before I had 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:14.480 the cold scare. Um give you a peek behind the 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.879 curtain on my skills. I have a new side hustle 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:25.200 that I think you listening can appreciate. Trash collector. Trash collector. Yes, 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:29.840 um So, I posted some photos of a bunch of 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.320 water bottles that I had picked up along the way. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:36.120 And as the late great Paul Harvey would say, you're 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.600 going to get the elastic, fantastic and somewhat gymnastic rest 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.520 of the story. So, when I moved into the Halfway 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.080 House where I had lived for the last couple of months, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:52.560 from like mid June to mid August, I had started 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:57.359 collecting water bottles because we didn't have a water system 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.080 that we could drink like filtered water, so we were 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.879 drinking water bottles at the place. Um So, I got 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.760 as many water bottles I could get. We drink a 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.680 lot of water the family at the Halfway House. And 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.160 so for some reason I got this in my head. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:14.880 I remember I was in line at Costco buying water bottles, 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.920 and when I checked out, the water bottles were listed 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.439 for like to nine nine or something like that, but 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.840 they said check out it was like more than that. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.679 It was a couple of dollars more. And then I 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.360 looked at the receipt and it was like they had 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:33.480 put in the California Redemption Value CRV, so that was 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.919 factored in, so you actually paid more. But then to 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.600 get that money back, the way it works is you 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.000 have to have the bottle of water bottles recycled and 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.439 they'll give you the money back. So I got this 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.720 Michigas and I said, you know what, I'm gonna see 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.400 if I can make a little money on the side 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:54.040 a little side house. So I right, right, So I 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.439 I'm an idiot. So I decided to collect all the 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.840 water bottles that I was getting, and then I tried 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.800 to get as many other water bottles when I would 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.280 when I would be out and I'd see a water 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.359 bottle on the side of the you know the path 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.240 I was walking, and I grab it. I'd snatch it 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.160 um and I just give as many water bottles I could. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.119 And this this was my thing. And so then it 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:17.440 was time to cash in my winnings last weekend, and 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.399 I was convinced that I hit the jackpot. I was 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.760 bragging to my friends and some of my relatives. I 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:27.040 had taken photos and I said this, I am about 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.800 to take advantage of the California Refund tax a refund 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:35.000 value whatever's called. And so I loaded up the malamobile 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.800 with I think it was four or five bags of 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.159 like their plastic bags filled to the very These are large, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.840 large trash bags filled with water bottle. So I head 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.840 down to the local recycling place. I get there and 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.359 the damn things closed. I'm like, what then they were 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.000 at the lunch, but I only had limited time because 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.760 I had something else, another thing I did do. So 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.280 I'm driving around car filled the water bottles. I'm on 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.320 my phone trying to find a place. The one that 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.760 pops up I go to. It's a seed location on 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.239 the wrong side of the tracks. And I made the 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:15.199 journey to this this water bottle recycling place right and 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.199 I end up doing the walk machine. I pull up. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:19.800 I'm like, man, I'm gonna get so much. And there 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.080 was a lot of people at this place, and I 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:26.199 gotta tell you, Ryan, it was so depressing. It was 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:30.080 so these are These are people down on their luck, disheveled, 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.720 a lot of people addicted whatever poverty. I felt so bad. 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.760 You should you probably riding in a Bentley pulling up 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.199 all these damn water bottles. I wasn't pulling up Bentley, 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:45.280 but I had a better car than they had, and 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:49.199 they were they were I know, Oh my god, I 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.560 felt so bad. I felt really bad for like these 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.119 They were like little kids there that were dragging water 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.399 bottles with their parents and on. It was terrible. And 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.720 here I am the jackass, total monkey, in the middle 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.280 of all this, and I've got you know, I'm just 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.520 standing there la la la la, la la la, in 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.520 the middle of a madhouse. And Nay, I was like, well, 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.040 I'm here, I might as well, you know, finish the journey, right. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.119 I didn't know where there was another recycled place. So 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.520 I then I take all these bags out of the car, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:18.199 and then the way it works is you have to 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.919 put the all the water bottles into these plastic bins 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.280 and then they weigh the bin and then whatever the 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.679 weight is, they do the math on that. Then they 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.200 give you them out. And so all that hard work, 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:35.600 all that effort for two months hoarding water bottles, four 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.320 or five bags of water bottles, trash bags filled with 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:43.720 water bottles, and I ended up getting Ryan sixteen dollars 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.640 and nine cents. That was my take. You probably more 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:54.040 than you know from doing that. Now, can I complain? 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.080 Can I complain. I would like to complain. Can I complain? 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:00.679 So let me let me compait. So I think I 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:06.000 got screwed. The waiting system screwed me because per bottles 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:08.120 like five or ten cents. I think it's like ten 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:10.639 cents or something like that. This is what it says. 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:13.240 In fact, I've got a water bottle. I don't you 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.360 can hear that? I've got a water here from Costco. Yeah, 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:21.280