WEBVTT - Your Favorite Disease 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.720 If you thought more hours a day, minutes a week 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:09.239 was enough, I think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:13.400 the old republic, a soul fashion harness. He treats crackheads 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.960 in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:20.480 poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.320 free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:29.600 starts right now. That it does. We are in the 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:33.680 air everywhere, but not on the place where normally at 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.440 We are only on the I Heart podcast network because 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.560 four hours or not enough. It is the Fifth Hour, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.920 which likely will have very few sports references in this edition. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.000 But it's me Ben Mallory. Hey, I hope you're doing well, 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.240 having a good weekend here as the weekend has begun. 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.400 If you hear the Fifth Hour, that means that the 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.720 weekend is underway for us, because it only debuts it 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:00.960 only at this point. It only goes out when we're 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.600 not doing the the Overnight Show. But uh and and 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:08.040 I have again not by popular demand, David Gascon, who 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:14.000 is writing Shotgun back in the Saddle, trying to sabotage 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.160 what's going to be a very appetizing I would say 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.679 even juicy edition of the Fifth Hour. So here's what 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.399 we have that the menu. So I like to give 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.520 the menu out so you know what's what to look 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.080 forward to, so you don't miss anything. But on today's 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.760 edition in the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and that 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.679 other guy Gascon affectionately known as Gagon, we gave him 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.800 a new nickname last week. If you missed the podcast, 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.480 go back and download last week's podcast Gascon's new nickname 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.679 and homage to Penn and teller bullshit, that's his new nickname. 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:48.720 So it's exciting there we can't say that word on 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.400 this Thank god for that. I've been a big advocate 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.800 over the years of the word ship and we are 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.800 very happy that we get to include that word in 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.760 the podcast. I feel it's a good word. It's a 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.280 solid word. It's a word that we should all be 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.120 able to use as adults. Anyway, this is gonna be 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.560 like a juicy lucy burger. You ever had a juicy 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:10.799 lucy burger? With about it? In Vegas, here, in Los Angeles, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.280 sometimes in New York. Of course, it's such a world traveler, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:18.440 such a bragg braggert, as they say, right of course, alright, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.840 So we have the weather Ranger. That's a new thing, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:25.440 the weather Ranger food picks that's inspired by Marcel and Brooklyn. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.760 We just mentioned a food dish. What else do we 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:31.239 have on the rundown? We have study this. That's another 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.840 thing that we're going to experiment with here on the 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.519 fifth This is pretty much you're you're you're all guinea 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.120 pigs and we're just trying stuff to see what works. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.280 We're throwing spaghetti against the wall to see anything stakes. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.400 And we have it's in the bag for the third 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:49.080 consecutive fifth hour with Ben Maller and Gagon, we have 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.079 it's in the bag. And also don't stick the sports 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.480 stories of the week. So that's what we got. What 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.760 we start with the weather and this inspired not by 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:00.920 the Mexican doppler which Roberto has, is this is the 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.480 Mega Mallard doppler, which we have on this show. But 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.480 the story here, I saw this the other day and 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.600 I feel like we need to spend more time on this. 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.600 So there was a study done that compiled all of 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:20.680 the weather caused fatalities the people that met their demise 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.440 because of in many ways an act of God right 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.800 because either stream weather and one condition or another some 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.160 massive storm or something like that. And what they did 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.760 is they put a chart together of the United States, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.200 and it's not just the continental United States, also includes 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:41.960 Alaska and Hawaii. And I always curious if you're hypochondriact 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.880 type of person, you think you're gonna meet your your demise. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.880 But I think most of us are like that. Like 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.760 if you see something on the news that there's some 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.440 pandemic going around, and I know I often think about crap, 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.200 I probably have it. I'm like, oh man, I'm I'm screwed. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:56.840 I got that whatever that is, you know, even if 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.440 it's like one out of every seven million people, I'm like, 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:01.640 I must be the one. I must be the one. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.040 And then you're going like web Md, which we often 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.840 kid around about on the Overnight show Guests Gone, But 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.440 you go on web Md and you type in your 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.880 symptoms and you are convinced you are you have stage 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.600 seven cancer and you're going to die within like a month, right? 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.760 Is that? Is that the first thing you do before 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.320 you go to bed or when you wake up in 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.400 the morning when you're not feeling well. Uh well, I 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.520 usually I've been feeling pretty good since I did this 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.400 I changed my diet and I haven't had any problem. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.360 But but if I do get sick, I'm like, okay, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.240 this is every time I get a cold. I'm like, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.320 it's never gonna go away. I'm gonna have a cold 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.760 forever and ever. This is gonna be the rest of 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.360 my life. I'm gonna have laryngitis and as a nightmare. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.040 But amazingly, so far, everything I've had is gone away, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.320 so that's positive. But anyway, alright, so what we're gonna 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.080 do here for this little exercise, guest, you can keep 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.240 track of this, all right? You will pick a state. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.200 You've got fifty options here. Now, don't pick main because 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.240 I already used Maine on the radio show, but just 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.400 picking a random state, and then we'll see if you 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:08.320 can guess what the weather related cause of death and 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.279 the most frequent cause of people dying in that particular state. 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.560 All right, fair enough? All right? So where where do 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.080 you want to start here? And I know you have 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.720 a a fiction affliction with Montana? Do you want to 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.279 start with Montana? Affection for Montana? Yeah, I mean chef's choice. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.400 Let's do Montana first, then chef's choice. Alright, very good, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.200 I'm gonna lead you to water, so hopefully you will 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.480 drink here. Now, what do you think the leading cause 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.479 of that? There's three according to this map that I 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.919 have here, there's three things that have led to the 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.120 demise most often weather related demise of people in the 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:46.120 last What do you think, I'm gonna say tornadoes? No, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.640 that is not on the list, alright, right, anything else? 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:55.560 You got any other I'm gonna say Montana, I'll say 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:01.680 something easy. Rain kind of it's it's lightning one of them. 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.160 Most of the state, you are most likely to die 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.680 with an avalanche. That there could be an avalanche on you, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.960 and that's what you're gonna die. And just extreme cold 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.839 in the northern part of Montana. Uh. And that's that's 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:20.320 actually true of pretty much the entire Upper Midwest. Is 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.640 like our friends in Minnesota, we a lot of guys 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.800 that love the show The Mallet of Militia Men in Minnesota. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.400 But like you live in Minnesota, You've got It's weird 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.680 because you've got most of the state the leading cause 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.480 of weather related death is extreme cold. You also at 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.599 the very top, you've got this this area where you 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.719 could you know, the flood thing and then the very bottom, 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.760 which is odd to me. You've got extreme heat, how hot, 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.039 and only it gets that hot, you know what I mean. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.480 I don't know. I was, And that's that's fascinating because 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.240 in maybe we're gonna look at different states. But I mean, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.240 don't forget the Super Bowls in Minnesota a couple of 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:58.080 years ago, and fortunate for our Fox crew, everyone was 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.159 inside because the entire week it was reason temperatures were 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.320 we're close to single digits. I think the entire time 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.000 they were out there before opening kickoff. So well, they 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.800 got all those catwalks right in Minnesota. Like, I've only 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.640 been to the airport in Minnesota. I guess spend some 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.640 time there, like to hang out, but there's only like 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.440 two months a year you can go where the weather 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.000 is beautiful, and the rest of the time it's like 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.440 what the hell is going on there? Yeah, you can 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.200 just hang out in the world's biggest mall, I guess 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.760 for the time being. Right, Well, they and they've got 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.000 all those tunnels, right, That's why my guys in Minnesota says, well, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.280 during the winter, we just don't go outside. I remember 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.760 a story the late great Sean Rooks. You probably do. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:35.280 You remember good guy he met his untimely demise, very 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.160 sad a few years ago. But Sean looks I was 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:42.000 sitting with him. Uh and the Prince of darkness Lee Klein, 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.360 who you you know, and that we should get him 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.360 on this podcast. But you don't want any guests, no, no, no, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.040 guard everything. We had a conversation with some tacos with 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.880 Lee and you cut off the conversation with Lee because 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:56.640 he was spinning all the way down the rabbits hole 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.200 and you don't want me to go down there with them. Well, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.600 because Lee, when you and I love and there's a 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.280 lot of people that follow me that remember Lee as 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.280 a talk show host. He worked at Fox briefly and 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.120 but and the Idea of Sports show with him long 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.720 and twenty years ago. But he's mostly a political like KFI, 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.680 which is the big news station l A. Worked I 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.120 think KBC also, which is a talk station in l A. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.720 And so, but he you go to dinner with him, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.240 and he goes into talk show political talk show mode 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.840 where he's like breaking down the government and he hates 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.000 all politicians, Republican, Democrat, pretty much all of them. So 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.320 he just unloads on on everyone, uh, the entire time 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.680 and it's uh, it's unnerving and never ending, and but 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.280 I love him anyway. He's entertaining, but he's just over 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.880 the top. But he was giving me some great stories 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.960 and we were having a serious conversation eating some tacos, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.200 and then you butt in and you tell me the 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.559 story that you had with him where you had him 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:57.680 doing opening monologue to dead air. Well, well, yeah, I'd 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.920 like to have him on too. Reminisce about that. But 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.080 one of the great stories. And radio so we were 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.520 and we did we did this show. I was back 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.240 in the local radio days. It was like, uh, the 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.560 old West. I mean it was it was ridiculous, man, 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.600 with the kind of stuff. It was animal House and 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.480 and all that back in those days. And so we 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.160 we remember the station was kind of start up station 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.280 and we were all doing remote. We're doing extra shows 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.360 on the weekend night, a show during the week at night, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.400 and then we had a Saturday morning show because the 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.520 program director determined dudes get up early on Saturday because 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.880 they have to do their their work around the house 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.080 and run errands and all that crep. So they're people 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.280 listening on Saturday. It's like it's a morning drive, you know. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:35.679 It's built a lot of people, big audience on a 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.480 Saturday morning. So whatever, right, we'll do a Saturday show. 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.320 So we did a lot of remotes. We go to 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.920 these different restaurants and stores and whatnot. We you do 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.480 in local radio, at least in those days, and they 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.400 don't think gonna do it that much anymore. So we 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.880 showed up. Uh we we uh we would go on 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.320 as your us. But but Lee had a show after ours, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.960 and sometimes we would go to different places. This particular Saturday, Uh, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.080 Lee somehow ended up at a remote we were not at. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:04.760 So we were on the air, we got off the air, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:10.480 and they could not the the engineer had trouble connecting 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.920 to Lee on the remote broadcast site. And so for 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.040 some reason, the person on site, the engineer was apparently 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:22.200 afraid to tell Lee the issue, because you know, Lee 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.520 has a bit of a temper, and so so they 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.599 just told him to start the show like it was 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.640 a regular show, and then uh, they finally connected by 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.240 the end of the very end of the monologue he did. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.600 And then I I was standing right behind the board 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.160 op and I I jumped on the microphone. I said, Hey, Lee, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.600 that was a wonderful monologue. Nobody heard it, and he 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:48.000 got so upset. He was so so, so vicious. Yeah, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:49.640 there's a bunch of lead Cline stories. I gotta get 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.240 back to Sean ro because Sean looks my Minnesota story 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.440 gas Gun so uh. He's telling me he played with 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.200 the Timberwolves back in the day and he didn't realize 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.239 how cold it got Minnesota. He said he was running errands, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.120 like on a day off for the Timberwolves, and he 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.840 went and got a cup of coffee and then he 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.480 went to the bank. He like, he said, he uh, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.160 he had to go get some some money or whatever 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.240 the bank, just to do his banking. So he parked 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:16.520 the car in front of the bank. It's like one 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.079 of those five minute things, you know where. I was 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.160 gonna park it here, and he forgot to close his 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.520 door right all the way came back and he had 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.560 from a piping hot coffee, he had an ice coffee 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.240 by the time he got back in like five minutes. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.400 It was that cool old man. That's how insane is that? 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:39.160 That that is that is brutal. I remember my first 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.520 ever trip to Chicago a few years ago. I actually 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.280 went in January, and I think it was during the 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.480 a f C Division round matchup where Tennessee lost at 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.240 New England. And I had gone to a Blackhawks game 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.480 at the United Center that night and I had gone 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.640 outside for I kid you not, Ben maybe seven to 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.800 eight minutes at the post and my ears were like bricks. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.640 It was so painful. And I had no ear mufs. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.240 I had gloves on but a jacket. But you know, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.199 being from Los Angeles, I didn't. I didn't. I don't 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.120 have a lot of winter attire, right, so going out there, 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.760 I've done the same I'm as dumb as you. I've 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.839 done the same thing I was in when I when 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.600 I did that TV thing for like a year, they 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.079 flew me back to Connecticut every month, and I would 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:26.920 you know, even you know, in the winter, you know, 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.760 and so I we would go out sometimes after the 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:33.160 show or whatever. We'd go There was Bobby vs. Bobby. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.480 Valentine's got a restaurant in Stanford, Connecticut was my spot 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.400 because it was close to the to the hotel. It 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.560 was like, uh, you know, four blocks from the hotel. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.640 I was standing out whatever. So I go there and 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.360 in the winter, I remember it was it was really 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.959 like ridiculously cold, and Stanford, Connectic it gets colder, but 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.440 even you get that cold, it was really cold and 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.440 so but for some reason, I was like, you know, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.920 I didn't want to take a cab or an uber 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.840 and I don't even if they had uber back then, 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.480 but I didn't want to take a cab, and so 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.680 I was like, I just walk, you know, it's no 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.079 big deal. And by the time I got back, I 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.000 thought I had frost bite. By the time I got 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:07.960 back to the hotel, I was like, what am I doing? 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.199 The whole I mean, it's just yeah, I think it's 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.160 partially because you're not prepared for It's like you put 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.320 somebody in the really extreme heat that's not used to it. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.320 You're you know what I mean, he's part of it. 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.960 Were at least wearing pants because I know you're not 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.400 a pants kind of guy. You're usually bath robe. You know, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.000 I live the bohemian lifestyle. Yeah, you do. Here at 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.520 I blame my wife for that. She's responsible for the 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.520 influence of the bohemian lifestyle. Nothing wrong with that. The 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.199 Voyer experience with the with the Mallards. Right, alright, so 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.160 another state, give me how about this, let's do what 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.680 about Hawaii? Hawaii. Alright, No, Hawaii is a small state. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.800 There's only one thing, there's not multiple things. What do 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.000 you think would be the weather related cause of people's 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:57.440 demise in Hawaii? Something that is perfectly avoidable. I'm gonna say, um, 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.439 weather related? What all these are? Weather related? I mean 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.920 that's why we're doing. Yes, whether you said weather related 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.719 but avoidable, yes, yes, it's this is I'll just give 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.960 you the answer. They they say that the leading cause 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:15.880 of fatalities in Hawaii, it's weather related. No extreme surf. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.040 You know when they have the storms come through and 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.680 those idiots are out on their surfboards and they get 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.120 they get smashed by a wave and they die. That's 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.880 leading cause of weather related I was in Hawaii one 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.440 time with my wife a couple of years ago, and 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.000 they had We were to kmart, which tells you how 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.560 good our trip to Hawaii was. In the area, well, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.360 there was a costco, but the kmart was going out 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.840 of business, so we had to get the rug mother 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.440 and uh so we went there and watch your language. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.640 I'm gonna tell your your parents about that day. Anyway. So, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.880 uh so, as in in the kmart and there was 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.960 a tropical storm that had come through and the power 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.280 turned off in the kmart. We were sitting you on 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.160 the pitch black in this big warehouse store thing. And 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.160 then uh, and then I had to go and get 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.000 the car. And it was so I got so wet 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.120 and so drenched from that like a monsoon or a 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.600 typhoon or whatever. It was insane. It was like the 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.000 worst that in in Buffalo were the two worst weather 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.080 like related things that I've been in. When I was 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.880 driving out of Buffalo down to back to New York 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.520 City and the weather it was, I had to stop 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.720 on the New York Expressway because I could not see 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:24.600 in front or behind me, and I was worried I 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.920 was gonna hit a car, but everyone was stopped. It 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.600 was I've never seen that before. Now since from the 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.080 land of earthquakes, you bring this up, are you prepared 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.200 for a natural disaster here in California? Do you have 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.840 like an emergency kit and some some supplies and good 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.120 So the way I'll answer that, first of all, I uh, 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.720 I am not. My wife is though, so I feel 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.400 like I'm the beneficiary of that that she is because 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.240 she works at the police station and all that, so 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.040 she's got all the you know, these ey tell her, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:52.720 you know, they tell you what you're supposed to have 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.360 and when you light flashlights and food rations and all. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.320 So she's got all that stuff. But but no, I mean, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.960 I don't think anyone's actually prepared for if it's a 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.440 massive earthquake, it's like, you know, ten point seven or 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.200 something like that on the Richter scale. I don't think 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.800 it really matters what you have. But in my entire life, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.640 it's two things have been true my entire life. People 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.840 have said that soccer is gonna become the most popular 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:20.120 sport in America. That's never happened. And they've also said 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.160 that the big ones about to hit California, it's gonna 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.320 fall off into the Pacific Ocean. And I know most people, uh, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.160 let's see east of the Mississippi and maybe even some 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.720 west wish it would happen. Hasn't happened yet, No, not yet, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.920 not yet. All right, it's another state. Then let's go 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:41.040 to Uh, what about New York, New York York. Now 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.080 New York's like two states in one. All right. So, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:44.880 by the way, if you're just late to the podcast, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:46.600 that no one actually gets late to the podcast at 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.720 this point, if you fast forward, so it's the weather Ranger. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.640 It's a new second is a study out that says 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:55.280 leading cause of weather fatalities from eighteen all Right, New York. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.640 You've got southern New York and then the rest of 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.800 the states. So in in like Manhattan, the leading cause 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.520 of death is in the other boroughs of New York 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:10.320 City is heat. Extreme heat. You know there's nasty August 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.200 September days where it just gets brutal. Yeah, I mean, 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.640 it's just smells like death in New York, especially when 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.640 you're walking down the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, because yeah, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.600 I mean, temperatures are up. The humanities what's Well, the 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.439 reason it smells like death is because they have to 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.159 put their trash out every day in New York and 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.800 the trash just cooks in in the heat. Well, they 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:37.719 actually do that in the middle of the night. I 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:40.399 remember earlier this year when I made a trip to 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.240 New York City. I was walking home from a night 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.520 on the town, and I think I got back at 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.439 three or four o'clock in the morning, and I was 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.400 in Lower Manhattan and before that's an unholy hour, guest, 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.440 but that happens at that time in the morning. Who cares, 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.840 it's New York. But to get into my hotel Ben, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.600 Honest to god, I had to go around bags of trash. No, no, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.320 I know, that's what I listen. I'm a night guy, obviously, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.800 and I when my brother lives in Manhattan and we 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.200 go back there and I'm out problems In New York. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.119 Everyone says everything is open all night, the city that 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.200 never sleeps. That's bullshit from was it Sinatra? That's something 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:19.200 that's his bullshit? All right? No, it trusts me most 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.480 of Manhattan at night. And I've I've lived the life 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:23.960 where I was like, oh, it's three in the morning, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.520 let me go out and have a nice meal. And 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.520 like pretty much every restaurant is closed. You can get 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.320 the corner Delhi subway in that subway, but the mom 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.960 and pop sandwich shops you can get like a turkey 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.719 sandwich or something like that. But there's not an endless 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.800 amount of food options, even in a place like New York. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.159 I remember me and my wife went on we were 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.639 in Times Square and we were walking around like to 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.080 one third in the morning, and we there's like one 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.399 one or two places that was it that was opened anyway, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.040 so lower men like New York City heat, the rest 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.440 of New York the leading cause of death weather related, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.520 got flash floods, which is really the center trull part. 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.280 And then in in western and very upper New York, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.040 you've got like where albuddy, isn't that, You've got wind 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.680 that wind related demises. So it's three different or four 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.400 different things, not three different things. Yeah, I mean, that's 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.000 that was my first thought with Hawaii because you mentioned 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.240 the surf for the high surf tides, but also the 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.520 volcano ash volcanoes erupting and if they if they do, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.840 you're blowing the the lava any kind of small sparks 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:28.399 and flow that goes onto the houses and forests and whatnot. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.280 And that was my my first stop of wind. Yeah, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.879 that's uh, that's right up there. What about give me 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:37.520 like Alabama? Alabama? All right, let's go to Alabama. So 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.800 the leading cause of people's demise in Alabama. There's two things. 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.439 Actually there's there's a few more than two things. You 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.639 gotta go down to the to the Gulf. Football, but 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.159 you've got yeah, that's right, Auburn football. You've got the 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.960 very top extreme heat. People dying because of the oppressive 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:00.280 heat of the South, and you've got torn a does 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.879 in the most of Alabama. You're you're leading cause of 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.920 dying by weather is a tornado. Do you have any 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.439 friends that are in that industry of chasing down tornadoes? 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.000 Do not? I've seen those shows. I've I've seen the 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.679