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The only advertising we have guerrilla marketing, 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:28.640 word of mouth, which is the most effective, most effective advertising. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.080 I told the story a few months ago. I someone 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.240 I used to date contacted me because she was going 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.440 out with someone and they talked about During the date, 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.680 they were having small talk and they were talking about what, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.399 you know, they listened to. It came up in conversation 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.720 and this guy's like, you know, I like this one 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.880 sports cast, sports podcast, the Ben Maller Show, and uh, 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.120 that's that's the kind of stuff that helps grow the show. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.800 So thank you if you're doing that. We welcome in 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.960 West of the four or five. I hear him breathing, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:11.399 David gas Scot was a pretty well run a day 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:14.280 for you. Yesterday we had Benny Versus the Penny, got 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.679 to uh hang out with the chief a little bit, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.560 and you got to dress up and place Santa. So, yes, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.240 it's fun Friday for you. I'm a little jealous. I'm 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.519 not gonna lie. I would like to thank you. I 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:26.320 know it was very difficult to book your father on 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.480 the show. I know it took a lot of work 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.280 to get him on. I'm sure we had to pay 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.720 him a lot of money. But but now, I love 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.040 your dad, and your dad's great and uh, even though 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.600 he lives west of the four or five two, I'll 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.120 put up with him. But uh, yeah, it was great 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.440 to talk to him, and I love We got into 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.240 a lot of different things about the police and defunding 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.080 the police and and what that really means in the 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.040 real world, and we wrapped it up with what really 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.000 people wanted from what I understand here, just hearing stories 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.639 about o J. Just hearing stories about your father's experience 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.760 living that this amazing story, and all of our lives 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.840 that were around those days. And he was right in 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.440 the middle of the frying pan when all that was 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:07.919 going on. So it was great to talk to him. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:10.160 And I'm sure we'll have him on again at some 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.040 point here, and so we'll have him on back down 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.800 the line. Yeah, it was it was good getting away 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.760 from the sports activity for a little bit. But uh, 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.000 but yeah, it's it's kind of a wild, wild year, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.160 and I think that kind of he summarized most of 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.040 it when we when you first opened the bag, asked 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.600 him about some of these questions. What I mentioned the 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.880 thing that and I still I mentioned this to him, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.080 but that video of somewhere in l A walking down 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.200 the street and it's like a war zone. It's like 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.520 a demilitarized zone with all these police cars just lit 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:49.200 up and tagged by these loser thugs. Uh. It was ridiculous, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.160 It was so stupid and uh but an were just 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.720 that yesterday and go back and you didn't hear that 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.320 podcast for some reason. It is available forever and ever 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.280 and ever at the end until someone pulls it off 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.840 the podcast world, and then it will be gone forever. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.720 At some point, I'm sure all this will be gone, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.040 but not for a long time, we hope. So on 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.640 this podcast we have a wellness check, Humdinger of a 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.560 Day and pop quiz. Very exciting. I know you're excited, guest, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.919 So what are you starting with? Alright, let's start with 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.719 the wellness check. Now, as much as you like to 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:26.360 take pot shots at the ability of the Mallew Militia 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:31.800 whether to read or to right put their pants on, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.520 not drool any of those over the toilet seat. Wow. Well, 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.159 one thing that we do when you're in the Mallew Militia, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.520 when you take the oath as a brigade deer, you 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.600 become a brigadier general. In the Mallew Militia. Okay, when 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.240 you do these that that thing when you cross the 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.599 line there and you solemnly swear to support and defender 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:56.160 ben Mallers show against all enemies foreign in domesty, we 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.200 look out for each other in the Mallew Militia. We 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.440 have a motto on the Mallew Militia it that every man, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.520 woman and child is welcome to take the oath and joint. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.279 Don't care if you're conservative, live or whatever, gay, straight, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.760 any raised, colored, creator religion. You gotta have thick skin. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.240 You gotta learn to take yourself lightly and above all else, 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.920 you gotta be willing to bust balls with each other. 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.920 But we also look out for our own right. We 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.320 bust chops. For example, a few weeks ago, a friend 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.839 of the show, guy's been calling me for so many years, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:31.080 Dick in Dayton. Dick dropped the bombshell, Dick from Dayton, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:32.760 who has been a state. But this guy has been 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.400 calling me for pretty much the entire time I've been 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.000 at Fox Sports Rights twenty years. We've had a relationship. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.159 How ridiculous is that I've ever met Dick from Dayton. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.760 I've just talked to him once a week or so 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.640 for twenty years. It's crazy. So anyway, Dick from Dayton 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.479 announced on the show a couple weeks ago he had 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:55.800 the COVID. Right now, I look at the numbers, I 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.400 look at the science and for you know, you have 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:01.680 a ninety nine point nine percent survival rate or whatever 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.520 it is. It's a very large survivor. But when you 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.800 get to a certain age, it becomes more of a problem. 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.480 So unfortunately, you know, Dick has been calling me for 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.359 a long time. He's in the age range where this 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.039 becomes problematic. Right, it becomes more of a more of 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:16.760 an issue. You gotta pay closer attention to it than 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.400 someone who's, you know, a thirty year old professional athlete 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:23.040 for example. Uh, he's not a spring chicken anymore. And 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.840 so after he rang the alarm bells, Dick from Daton 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.600 on the show and then he vanished. And he normally 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:34.800 calls in on Monday or Tuesday to recap the Browns. 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.320 Hey bet, how about the Browns you know? Or the 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.479 Bangals you know? And he he wants to of course, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:41.840 he never watches the game, but he wants to talk 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.000 about them because he loves calling into sports radio. So 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:46.919 he calls in, he announced he has the COVID. We 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.159 had not heard from him for a couple of weeks. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.240 I started to get a little worried. I I had 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.800 friends of mine who are fans of the show, that said, Hey, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.840 what happened to Dick from Dayton. He said he had 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:59.400 to COVID. What happened to him? He hasn't called the 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.520 show and I didn't. Initially I didn't think about it, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:03.920 but then when people were bringing it up to me 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.400 as I got crap, what happened to Dick and Dayton? 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.640 So um, First of all, I would like to thank 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.640 the crack support staff of the Malleard Militia. I will 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.760 not reveal the guilty, but someone in the mallem Militia 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.840 had tracked down Dick in Dayton's phone number. Now I 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.560 didn't do this. Somebody reached out to me and said, hey, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.800 you know, somewhat recently we had Dick from Dayton's phone number. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.680 So I believe it's or not David, I believe it 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.920 or not. I earlier this week dialed Dick. I did. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.400 I called in Dick from Dayton. I called in after 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.880 the show. It was early in the morning. Uh, and 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:49.000 it was. Secondly, it was a surreal conversation. Okay, because 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.800 first of all, I called the number that I was given, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.280 not knowing if this, mind you, was actually Dick and 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.080 Dayton's number. This could have been any any Ohio Dayton, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.840 Ohio number. It was a landline, so that led me 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.920 to believe it probably was Dick from Dayton. He was 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:06.960 an old guy with the landline. That's the cliche. So anyway, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.400 I may I make the phone call. And it was 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.480 the reason it was surreal. Someone else answered the photo 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.640 woman and you know, Dick from Dayton, single guy, as 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.480 far as I knew and all that, but you know, 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.720 the woman was there, and so I asked, is that 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:26.480 is Dick from Dayton there? And she seemed gob smack 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.360 like you know, what is this about? You know that 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.680 kind of thing. And I'm like, oh, this is a 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.400 bad sign. And I said, well, no, it's it's um 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.480 you know, it's been in l a. I'm I just 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.040 wanted to talk to I heard this was his number, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.880 and I just wanted to talk to Dick from Dayton 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.720 and and she's like paused again, and I'm like, oh, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.079 this must not be the right number. I'm like, how embarrassing. 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.160 Is this you know? I mean this embarrassing. I called 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.839 up someone that you know, It's like six thirty in 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.360 the morning, and Dayton, I'm calling him up. And right 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.839 after this, half an hour after the show. Um, and 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.800 then then I guess a light bulb went off on 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.680 her head and she said, oh, Richard. I guess she 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.559 calls him rich you know, Dick Richard at the same 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.360 and so anyway, she passed. Eventually got she starts screaming, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.160 this is the funny thing. So it's okay, I'll get him. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.440 And she starts screaming, hey, Richard, you got a call, right, 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.280 And then I hear in the background, who is it? 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.559 Is it work? Is it Lows? You know? Because he 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.200 works at Lows? And so eventually he got to the phone, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:28.400 and this is the this is the most surreal situation. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.600 So I'm on the phone with this guy's been calling 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.720 me for twenty years. I'm like, hey, daken s Ben 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.480 Maller from Fox, I just wanted to see if you 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.679 were doing okay. And about fifty percent of the conversation, 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.680 hand to god, he was trying to I had to 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.240 explain to him. He didn't understand who I was I 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.439 was trying to explain to him that it was really 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.520 me and it was not somebody pretending to be me, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.800 like he he thought I might be an impostor you know, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.320 who is this what? You know? I know, I I 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:58.840 You've talked to me on the radio and I was, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.600 And finally I was able to convey it's him. But 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.320 literally half the phone call was me saying, no, it's 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.319 really me, and I'm you know, I'm the guy on 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.800 the radio. And and so anyway, I finally convinced him 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.080 and we we talked a little bit. We talked it out, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.840 and he was a little out of it as always 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.800 um and just the final point, he did tell me 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:23.280 he lost the sense of taste and smell, which which 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.320 so many people you have have said they report that 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.640 that issue when they have the COVID. He said it 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:32.560 was kind of like a cold and it wasn't all 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.480 that bad, and he was actually said he told me 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.320 he was starting to feel better. But he did complain Dick, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.760 and Daton never complains about anything Dick from Daton, but 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.640 he did it seem a little perturb which is completely 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.160 understandable that some co worker apparently had come to his 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.199 work and showed up with the COVID and that's how 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.240 he got it wasn't even from a customer, it was 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.920 from somebody who was a coworker that showed up with 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.360 this thing. Um. And then just to make sure it 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:02.040 was not a fake Dick from Dayton. He then at 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.280 the end, I'm asking him how he's doing. After spending 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.000 half the time trying to tell him who I was. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.520 I then asked him for a wellness check. He tells 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.800 me how he's doing. He then starts lamenting the fact 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.760 that there's no Ohio State Michigan game this weekend, which 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.920 would have been played today. And then also he was 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.920 coming how about the Browns. You know, It's like it 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.840 was just like we like a flip of a switch 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.200 all of a sudden, and he had become the sports 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.440 radio caller guy Dick from Dayton. And but the good 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.160 news is he did tell me. At the very end, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.920 he says he's feeling better and he thinks he can 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.240 go back to Lows. He was hoping to go back 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:43.400 this weekend if he's cleared. And and then he dropped 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.480 the name of like several different radio people from Ohio 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.400 that he calls into. Yeah, well, I'm glad you're called. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.800 You know, Steve and Bill they're they're worried about me too. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.360 You know. It was just it was just great. I 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.600 love the guy. He's such a character, and he's like 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.000 that's just how he is man, just how he is. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.760 And uh, but he's doing all right, So hopefully he 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.640 will be back on the show. And I just want 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.520 to know, guess gun, do you think Colin Cowhard would 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.760 call and check in on a listener? Depends how old 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:21.840 she is. I have plot whoever tracked down his number 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.160 that is that has some great recon get his number 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.920 to find that and then get it over to his 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:32.320 A plus, we have tremendous the investigative arm of the 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:38.760 Mallard militia. Uh, wonderful. We have advisors and experts and 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.120 people that are specialists in different areas of tracking things down. Yeah, 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.920 I would have. I have no way. So now I 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:46.760 didn't give Dicken date my number and I didn't call 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.160 What did I call from a block number? Oh well, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.000 I don't think Dick's text savvy enough. So even if 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.560 I didn't call from a block number, I don't think 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.640 they'll be able to figure out that it's my number. Um, 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.280 but but yeah, it was. It was great. So I'm 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.319 very happy about that. He adds to the list now 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.600 of callers I've actually talked to off the air. That 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:09.040 list includes Cowboy, I believe Cowboy and Winsor We've got 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.960 of course, Doc Mike calls me every week. He's on 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.120 that list, Pete and Pittsburgh. I've had some off of 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.960 your conversations. He's a retired caller. He's caller back in 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.600 the day, the great J. Scoop Lance the bus driver 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.960 is on that list, Genie and Medford, the late great 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.240 Genie and Medford, and a handful of others that we 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.600 have interacted with. Blind Scott. I've talked to him, so 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.520 we hung out a few times in Boston back back 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.720 in the day over the years. So you can add 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.960 Dick and Dayton to us. But he is doing okay, Yeah, 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.320 as long as he's alive and well, that's that's good. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.960 Have you talked to Blind Scott in a while, You know, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.520 he he doesn't call the show that often anymore. He 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:58.440 he does harass me on email. He sends me a 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:04.680 lot of emails. Um, and so lately his Michigas is 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.600 that he's getting a new dog. He's getting a new 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:14.840 dog because Kramer's being taken out the pastor and he said, January, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:16.960 you send me this email. He says, I'm getting my 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.320 new dog. They let me know today. So he's got 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.320 to go to New Jersey and quarantine, I believe, and 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.160 then he gets the dog. I believe. That's how that goes. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:32.240 Let a mess. Yeah, So good times, good times. So 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.080 now I have this this tale I would like to tell. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.720 I'm gonna call this one a humdinger of a day, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:48.040 all right. It started as a lazy Monday afternoon and 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:55.440 became topsy turvy, was turned up side down, upside down. 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.280 So we're gonna flash back in the hot tup times. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:03.400 This goes back to as I said, Monday, and I'm 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.920 doing the normal routine. I'm fasting, and I saying to 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.440 go to the store and buy some some bread and 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.920 the few other things random things. Have to buy a 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.520 few things at the store, bread, salsa, some some other stuff. 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.320 So I go to the store, and uh, I pay 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.320 my tab at the grocery store. I go to the 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.240 car and that's it, you know. I go to the car. 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.400 That's it. Um. But as Paul Harvey would say, all right, 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.840 for what it's worth. You know what the news is. 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.520 But in a minute you're going to hear the rest 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.960 of the story. So it's not just a normal meat 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.120 going to the store buying salsa and bread would not 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:46.240 qualify as a mention on the podcast. So I pay 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.800 my I pay my bill David at the store there 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.800 and I go to the car. I drive home, short 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.440 drive live right near the store, back to the Mallard Mansion. 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.560 I pull into the Mallard Mansion parking adjacent to the 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:01.440 Mallar Mansion. I jump out, I grabbed my food, and 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.840 I head to the door. I reached down to get 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.160 the key to open the door, and I noticed that 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:12.680 something is not right. There's something missing. And initially I 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.920 wasn't sure what I had the keys, so it wasn't 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.400 the keys. I had the keys, obviously. I got in 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.280 the car, I was able to drive home. I started 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:26.000 like kind of feeling around my leg. My wallet was 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.720 not in my pocket. Yeah, no keeping. At the time, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.280 I was like, well, this is no big deal. You know, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.160 I was wearing sweatpants and they had kind of small pockets, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.520 so I figured probably it probably fell out, like on 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.360 the side of the you know when you sit down 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.680 the sideboard there of the car. So yeah, yeah. So 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.280 I was like, I'll go get it. So I go back. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.320 I'm not even concerned at this point. I reached down 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.040 near the side of the seat there and there's buffs. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.160 Oh boy. So then I'm thinking, well, it must have 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.760 fallen out. It's on the floorboard underneath the seat, because 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.800 maybe it fell down and bounced it the logical that 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.919 could happen. So I reached down, goose egg nothing. Nothing. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.439 So now I'm starting to get a little concerned. So 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.000 then then I go to the back where I put 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.000 the groceries to the back of the car, and I 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.960 was like, okay, maybe I just put my wallet down 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.760 when I put the groceries. I didn't even realize it. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:23.000 So I go to the back. Nothing and then I 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.240 had this ah ha moment. It hit me like a 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.920 bag of bricks. My goddamn wallet had must have fallen 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:37.000 out when getting into the car, right, So I immediately 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:42.800 jump back into malamobile and I am breaking every land 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.160 speed record to get back because I figured it if 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.639 it fell out, I paid for the food, so it 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.280 had to fall out in the parking line like when 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.479 I was getting into the car. I was as soon 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:52.719 it just fell out when I was getting the car, 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.920 So I zoomed back to the to the grocery store, 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.960 and I had remembered the space that I had parked in, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.760 so I slowly turned the get into the parking lot. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.359 I turned the corner into the line where I'm parked 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:10.040 into the space, and another cars parked there. And I 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.199 just left a few minutes ago in another cars park there. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:13.719 So I hop out of the park a hop out 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.760 of the car. I then get on my hands and 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.480 knees in the parking lot, thinking my wallet was under 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:27.359 the car. Oh, nothing, There's nothing under the car. So 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.040 then I'm like where could it be? So then I 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.360 retraced my steps and I was like, I tried to remember, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.000 mind you I just done this, but you don't remember 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.520 exactly where you're walking. I tried to remember exact way 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.480 I walked out of the store through the parking lot, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.879 thinking maybe it's down. I'll to find it on the ground. 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:49.920 I found ziltra. So now I'm really getting agitated and annoyed. Right, 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.320 I'm like, holy crap, what have I done? I got everything? 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:54.840 I got my credit card, that a little bit of 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.800 cash in there. I had my driver's license and my 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.840 whole life was in that wallet, and what a pain 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.719 in the acid is to replace all those things. So 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.879 I go into the store with my head down, my 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.920 tail between my legs defeated, and they're kind of busy. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.960 I walked in through the way you're not supposed to 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.159 go in, and I finally got the hold of one 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:20.560 of the managers of the store, and I very quietly asked, 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:26.240 did anyone turn in the wallet? And she paused for 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.240 a second. The woman, very nice woman. She paused for 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:33.840 a second, and then she she said, yes, yes, someone 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:38.240 just did turn in a wall a few minutes ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.679 And sure enough, someone had found my wallet in the 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.439 parking lot of Good Samaritan had taken it in and 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.680 I don't even know who. They didn't leave their name. 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.359 I don't know who it is. I would really like 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:55.399 to thank them. And so there's a chance this my 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.359 my business card was in the wall, and I'm assuming 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:00.439 they opened the wallet to look what is this? They 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.639 might know maybe who I am or something like that, 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:06.119 maybe tracked down this podcast. So if you are the 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:07.920 person that found my wallet, I would like you to 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.560 reach out now I've purposely not named the store or 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.159 the time that happened. So the reason I did that 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.560 I left those pieces of information out is because if 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.920 the on the off chance that whoever found my wallet 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.639 reaches out to me, I will and gives me the 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:29.439 time this happened and the store, I will give you 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.399 a little bit of a reward. So I'm offering a 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.479 reward because that's you saved me so many headaches, and 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.800 he didn't have to do that. I'm shocked that someone did. 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.720 I didn't take a dollar out of it, and all 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.520 the money was there, all the credit cards, everything was 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.640 just like I had left it. Um, So so thank 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.080 you who knew that we still have good people living 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.880 amongst us. You get lucked out, man, you really did. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.080 At how much money did you have in your wallet 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.440 at the time, I'd rather not disclose letter I shouldn't 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.280 guess good, but there were some some twenty dollar bills. 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:05.879 There were a few five dollar bills in there, Okay, 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:07.800 so it's not like you had a couple of bucks. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.400 I yeah, I had more than like eight bucks. I had. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.200 It was probably around you know, maybe a hundred bucks 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:20.439 or something like that. But well, you know what, it is. 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.479 I used to use cash a lot, and I just 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:24.560 I haven't spent it on anything, so I just kind 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.600 of haven't leaving I was just leaving in my wallet. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:30.639 But I I pretty much use credit cards exclusively, and 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:31.920 I don't even know I should just take it out 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:33.440